Textile/history

Famous quotes containing the words textile and/or history:

    “Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)