Royal Swedish Academy of Letters

Famous quotes containing the words royal, academy and/or letters:

    But while meditating
    What we can’t or can
    Let’s keep starring man
    In the royal role.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
    bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)