Solemn High Mass

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

    “A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)