Threshold/architecture

Famous quotes containing the words threshold and/or architecture:

“On the threshold of old age.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)