The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings Quotes

“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.”
― Hugo von Hofmannsthal, The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings