Quotes About Horizontals

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.

He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.

At the seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.