Ancestral Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or spirits:

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “But pardon, gentles all,
    The flat unraised spirits that hath dared
    On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
    So great an object.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)