Famous quotes containing the words medieval, city and/or gates:
“The Christos-image
is most difficult to disentangle
from its art-craft junk-shop
paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
of pain-worship and death-symbol.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)
“Theres freedom at thy gates and rest
For Earths downtrodden and oppressed,”
—William Cullen Bryant (17941878)