“Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.” HandsEarthFallRocksTearsRainDustTowersImpatientGleam Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.” LittlesCharacterFallBitsVoiceEventsPaperLittle BitDelightHearingStrongestTowersLeafsFeathersCapriceReceipts Book:Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
“[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.” HumansMeanWholeFallUnited StatesDependsComfortBuiltSafetyTerrorismTriumphTowersLarger Than Life Author:Starhawk
“The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.” FallForceGreaterWindHigherLowsTowersLofty Author:Horace
“I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner - and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers [...] a miracle from God.” WayLongRealFallDemocracyLong TimeMiracleSpreadProofTwinsTowersPlannersTwin Towers Author:Muqtada al Sadr
“In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But at the dusk--he's abroad and well! Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him-- All mock him outright, by day: But at night, when the woods grow still and dim, The boldest will shrink away! O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl, Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!” WellsStillsNightFallGrowsHoursTreeBirdWoodsForestsHatedDullSunshineGrayMatesTowersReignShrinksHollowDespisedMockDuskOwlFowlRoost Author:Bryan Procter