4 Quotes Tagged: cemeteries

And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

Memory is a cemetery
I’ve visited once or twice

Over all was that air of abandonment and decay which seems nowhere so fit and significant as in a village of the forgotten dead.