“A place of dream, the Holy Land
Hangs midway between earth and heaven.”
The Holy Land.
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American author 1835–1921Related quotes
“Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.”
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: A culture that is in the process of being swamped by another often reacts by physically grappling with the outsiders. But it may wage a cultural war as well. Such defensive actions have been given various labels by anthropologists: nativism, revivalism, revitalization, and messianism. All are deliberate efforts to erect a better culture out of the defeat or decay of an older one.... The reactions of primitive peoples overpowered by Eurasian colonial empires have usually been much more extreme. Their lands appropriated, their social system ripped apart, their customs suppressed, and their holy places profaned—they tried to resist physically but they were inevitably defeated by the superior firepower and technology of the Whites. As hopelessness and apathy settled over these people, the ground was prepared for revivalistic and messianic movements that promised the return of the good old days.
“Because of thee, the land of dreams
Becomes a gathering place of fears”
The Dark Angel (1895)
Context: p>Through thee, the gracious Muses turn,
To Furies, O mine Enemy!
And all the things of beauty burn
With flames of evil ecstasy.Because of thee, the land of dreams
Becomes a gathering place of fears:
Until tormented slumber seems
One vehemence of useless tears.</p
Dracula's Daughter, telling Garth that she believes Von Helsing's story of vampires Unbeknownst to Garth, the Countess is a vampire.
Dracula's Daughter (1936)

New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you
must make, not a place you must find.”

“Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.”
Act v, Scene iii.
Richelieu (1839)