Burn Incense

Famous quotes containing the words burn incense, burn and/or incense:

    The poor have their fortunes told; the rich burn incense to the Buddha.
    Chinese proverb.

    English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
    Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)

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