Temple of Literature

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

    After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
    And thy temple have they defiled.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)