Emily Bronte
Poet, Novelist
"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing."
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Gothic
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us."
Tyson Chandler
Basketball Player
"I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]"
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble."
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"We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed."
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"Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on."
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