Ancestral Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or spirits:

    “And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    “The blood we give the dead to drink
    is deeds we do at the will of the dead spirits in us,
    not our own live will.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)