Steeples Quotes

• I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Inspiración, Danza, Estrellas

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Estrellas, Hombres, Cielo

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.291

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• I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

  John Henry Newman

  Love, God, Voice

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• Lo bello de la vida...
  Algunos hablan de ello en poesía,
  Algunos lo cultivan en la tierra,
  Algunos lo construyen en un campanario,
  Algunos lo muestran a través de su trabajo.
  Algunos lo respiran en la música,
  Algunos lo moldean en arte,
  Algunos le dan forma de pan...
  Algunos la llevan en el corazón.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Belleza, Arte, Sentido de la Vida

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• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

  Claude Debussy

  Dream, Iron, Soul

  Claude Debussy's letter to Ernest Chausson, 1894.

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• Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Crazy, Simple

  Song: Fruitcakes, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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• The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

  A. E. Housman

  People, Dumb, Church

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 21

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• Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Ocean, Sea, Surface

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• Te contaré cómo salió el sol, una cinta a la vez. Los campanarios nadaron en amatista, Las noticias como ardillas corrieron. Las colinas desataron sus bonetes, Los bobolinks comenzaron. Entonces me dije en voz baja: "¡Eso debe haber sido el sol!

  Emily Dickinson

  Ardillas, Rosa, Noticias

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). "Dickinson", p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• La Abadía de Westminster, la Torre, un campanario, una iglesia, y luego otra, se presentaron a nuestra vista; y ahora podíamos distinguir claramente las altas chimeneas redondas en las cimas de las casas, que sin embargo nos parecían formar un número innumerable de pequeñas agujas, o campanarios.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Vistas, Números, Casa

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). "Viajes por Inglaterra en 1782", p.7, BoD - Books on Demand

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• 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

  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Kings, Ocean, Blue

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid”, p.4, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Done, Spires

  Song: Up Up Up Up Up Up, Album: Up Up Up Up Up Up

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• Entre la multitud de un millón de personas encontraré a mi Valentín, y entonces subiré al campanario más alto y le diré al mundo que es mío.

  Connie Francis

  Valentine, Dating, People

  Song: Where The Boys Are

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• When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

  Richard Cecil

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

  Keith Ablow

  Pain, Dark, Like Love

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

  Evan Esar

  Church, Lightning, Care

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• As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

  George Eliot

  Gossip, People, Mind

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

  Ani DiFranco

  Integrity, Moving, Home

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• Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Dust, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ideas, People, House

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). "Vida y genio de Nathaniel Hawthorne: Cartas, Diarios, Reminiscencias y Biografías Extensas: Escritos autobiográficos del célebre novelista estadounidense, autor de "La letra escarlata", "La casa de las siete tejas" y "Cuentos contados dos veces"", p.228, e-artnow

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• One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Morning, Blessed, America

  Manuscript notes when writing what would later become the song "This Land Is Your Land", February 23, 1940.

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• O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Unseen, Noses

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1858). “Shakespere's Werke”, p.28

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• ¿Quién sabe si la luna es un globo que sale de una ciudad en el cielo, llena de gente guapa? (Y si tú y yo nos metiéramos en él, si nos llevaran a ti y a mí en su globo, entonces subiríamos más alto con toda esa gente guapa que las casas, los campanarios y las nubes: navegaríamos lejos y lejos, navegando hacia una ciudad que nadie ha visitado nunca, donde siempre es primavera, y todo el mundo está enamorado y las flores se recogen solas).

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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