#inscription

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#came #collaboration #course #designed #garden

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments

Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the Earth. ↗

— Raymond Carver - from his grave marker

#life

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' ↗

— Samuel Butler

#inscription #kitten #literary #man #name

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#eat #eaten #found #hippopotamus #his

Here lies one whose name was writ on water. ↗

— John Keats

#lasting-words #tombstone-inscription #inspirational

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#i #i love #i love you #inscription #love