Storied Stone Pagoda

Famous quotes containing the words storied, stone and/or pagoda:

    “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
    With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me;
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
    Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

    It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,—a stone to a bone? “Here lies,”M”Here lies”;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)