Shrines – Quotes

I have an apartment

I have an apartment in Brooklyn – I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children. Erykah Badu

Art is a profession,

Art is a profession, not a shrine. Elizabeth Hardwick

Beware of flattery! \\’tis

Beware of flattery! ’tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume. Elijah Fenton

I fear the vermin

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine. Edwin Markham

Joy, thou spark from Heav’n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. Friedrich Schiller

Libraries are as the

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Francis Bacon

I dyed my hair

I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 – in my goth period – I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love … Read more

I wanted to be

I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other … Read more

The unique personality which

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of … Read more

The unique personality which

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. Felix Adler