ghost quotes

And the three men I admired most, The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died.

- Don McLean
  'American Pie'.

Amar es combatir, es abrir puertas, dejar de ser fantasma con un n u mero a perpetua cadena condenado por un amo sin rostro. To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master.

- Octavio Paz
  Libertad bajo palabra,'Piedra de sol' (translated as'The Sun Stone',1963).

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.

- Gilbert Ryle
  The Concept of Mind.

It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though my own red roses there may blow; It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though the red roses crest the caps, I know. For the field is full of shades as I near theshadowy coast, And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost, And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host As the run-stealers flicker to and fro, To and fro: O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago!

- Francis Thompson
  'At Lord's', poem dedicated to friends to explain why he could not attend a match at Lord's at their invitation for fear of the sadness it would cause him, remembering the long-dead friends who had played there (for Lancashire) back in1878.