Temple of Literature

Famous quotes containing the words temple of, temple and/or literature:

    Thou shalt make thy house
    The temple of a nation’s vows.
    Spirits of a higher strain
    Who sought thee once shall seek again.
    I detected many a god
    Forth already on the road,
    Ancestors of beauty come
    In thy breast to make a home.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
    —Shirley Temple Black (b. 1928)

    Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)