Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."
Priesthood quotes
Priesthood
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Brigham Young
Religious Leader
"No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood"
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood."
John Keats
Poet
"Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood."
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