Cloistral Quotes
- Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater
- Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
- Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann