Centre Surround Structures

Famous quotes containing the words centre, surround and/or structures:

“The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Rivers of wings surround us and vast tribulation.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)