Quotes Tagged "castles"

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.

If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.