"No tribute is laid on castles in the air."

-- Charles Churchill

#Air Quotes #Castles Quotes #Building Quotes

“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.”
“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .”
“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers ... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
“A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.”
“The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.”
“The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.”
“There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.”
“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”

Source : "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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