Direct Burning Incense

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

    “In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and ... in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

    “The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Here the sausage and garlic booth
    Sent unholy incense skyward;
    There a quivering female-thing
    Gestured assignations, and lied
    To call it dancing;”
    —Anne Spencer (1882–1975)