Famous quotes containing the words gothic and/or literature:
“It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection ... raise up a stately and unaccusable whole.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)