Chimney/history

Famous quotes containing the words chimney and/or history:

“By words, by voices, a lost way—
And here above the chimney stack
The unknown constellations sway—
And by what way shall I go back?”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)