(31 quotes found)
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped”
Marcel Proust
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.”
Henry Moore
“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.”
Sinclair Lewis
“I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike.”
Madeleine L'Engle
“There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes”
Emily Dickinson
“Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.”
Daniel Kleppner
