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The ceremony of excommunication came to be known as bell, book, and candle, as these were the three elements needed to see it through. The curse of excommunication was first read from a book, which the cleric then closed. A bell was tolled, as if for a dead man, and then candles were blown out, to signify the extinguishing of the offender from the very sight of God.
Raising Hell
Robert Masello
When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience.
Appalachian Elegy
bell hooks
The lamp, faint as a starpatch on the limitless wall of the forest, provoked new sounds, almost like laughter.
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
John Farris
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