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)

    Where there is no temple there shall be no homes....
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)