Apollo Room

The Apollo Room can refer to:

  • A room in the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
  • St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Salon d’Apollon in the Palace of Versailles in France
  • Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre Museum/Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

Famous quotes containing the words apollo and/or room:

    In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.
    Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves ... and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.
    Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)