Famous quotes containing the words shapiro, library and/or building:
“He shall eat flowers,
Chew honey and spit out gall. They shall all smile
And love and pity him.
His death shall be by drowning.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)