Incense Seal Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words incense, seal and/or clocks:

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

    “Don’t forget that even our most obscene vices nearly always bear the seal of sullen greatness.”
    —Gesualdo Bufalino (b. 1920)

    “Weighing the steadfastness and state
    Of some mean things which here below reside,
    Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date
    And intercourse of times divide,”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)