Pointed Arches

Famous quotes containing the words pointed and/or arches:

    I heard the beat of centaur’s hoofs over the hard turf
    As his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon.
    “He is a charming man” “But after all what did he mean?”—
    “His pointed ears. ... He must be unbalanced,”—
    “There was something he said that I might have challenged.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The lean cats of the arches of the churches,
    That’s the old world. In the new, all men are priests.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)