Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or ritual:
“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description.... Criticism is ceremonial revivification.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)