Direct Burning Incense

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

    “The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “He is keeping a candle burning in a shrine
    where nobody comes,
    there must be some mystery
    in the air
    about him.
    I am almost afraid to think to myself,
    why,
    he is there.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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