Famous quotes containing the words ancient, peoples and/or architecture:
“There is an ancient saying, which is a true one—”To fight against two opponents is a difficult thing.””
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“She is watching her country lose its evoked master shape watching
it lose
And gain get back its houses and peoples watching it bring up
Its local lights single homes lamps on barn roofs”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)