Mission San Carlos

Famous quotes containing the words mission, san and/or carlos:

    “I cannot be a materialist—but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery—such suffering, such dreadful suffering—and shall the short years of Christ’s mission atone for it all?”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “the San Marco Library,
    Whence turbulent Italy should draw
    Delight in Art whose end is peace,
    In logic and in natural law
    By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “You said, Unless there is some spark, some
    spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a
    continuing life’s impossible—and it is all
    we have. There is no other life, only the one.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)