I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple! - C.G. Jung
This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch. - Vern Rustsala
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. - Diane Johnson
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire. - Robert E. Howard
In Art canvases DRAW answers and withdraw the silence of hidden lamps, illumination. - Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor. - Aleksandra Layland