Ancestral Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or spirits:

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “the sacred few who could not tame
    Their spirits to the conquerors—”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)