Incense/history

Famous quotes containing the words incense and/or history:

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

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)