Ritual Purity

Famous quotes containing the words ritual and/or purity:

“The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description.... Criticism is ceremonial revivification.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)