Famous quotes containing the words temple and/or literature:
“The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle-queen of yore,
Maryland! my Maryland!”
—James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)