Direct Burning Incense

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

    “No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “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)

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