Ancestral Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or spirits:

“Odour of blood on the ancestral stair!
And we that have shed none must gather there
And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)