Sublime

Famous quotes containing the word sublime:

“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
—St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)

“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)