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.

    Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
    Jean Racine (1639–1699)

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