Solemn High Mass

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

    “By the bivouac’s fitful flame,
    A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Gifts of one loved me,—
    ‘T was high time they came;
    When he ceased to love me,
    Time they stopped for shame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk.
    So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)