Veil/history

Famous quotes containing the words veil and/or history:

    “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)