Famous quotes containing the words fortress and/or press:
“The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I press not to the quire, nor dare I greet
The holy place with my unhallowed feet;
My unwashed Muse pollutes not things divine,
Nor mingles her profaner notes with thine;
Here humbly at the porch she listening stays,
And with glad ears sucks in thy sacred lays.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)
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