Direct Burning Incense

Famous quotes containing the words direct, burning and/or incense:

    “Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “But must I confess how I liked him,
    How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my
    water-trough
    And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
    Into the burning bowels of this earth?”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Flies, acolytes
    of the death-in-life temple
    buzz their prayers
    and from the altar
    of excrement arises
    an incense ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)