Famous quotes containing the words human and/or assembly:
“The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)