Steeples – Quotes

The Lord takes care

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. Evan Esar

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands … Read more

The steeples swam in

The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam. Emily Dickinson

I\\’ll tell you how

I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, \”That must have been the sun! Emily Dickinson

who knows if the

who knows if the moon’s a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky–filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: … Read more

So they grew, and

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn’t grow up any higher; So they twin’d themselves into a true lover’s knot, For all lovers true to admire. Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell

For a house, somewhere

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty. Douglas Sirk

Turning something upside-down elicits

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. Dennis Oppenheim

The human mind prefers

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling … Read more

Forgiveness to letting go

Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell … Read more