Solemn High Mass

Famous quotes containing the words solemn, high and/or mass:

    There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    If you’re anxious for to shine in the high esthetic line as a man
    of culture rare,
    You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant
    them everywhere.
    You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
    complicated state of mind,
    The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a
    transcendental kind.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    the melodious but vast mass of today’s
    Writing ...
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)