Ritual Reading

Famous quotes containing the words ritual and/or reading:

“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)

“Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)