Famous quotes containing the words catholic, war and/or council:
“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)
“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what Id call imperial provincialism, which afflicts Americas whole cultureaware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isnt part of the local atmosphere.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)