Walter Pater Quotes About Helen Of Troy

We have collected for you the TOP of Walter Pater's best quotes about Helen Of Troy! Here are collected all the quotes about Helen Of Troy starting from the birthday of the Critic – August 4, 1839! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 1 sayings of Walter Pater about Helen Of Troy. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!

All quotes by Walter Pater: Age Art Beauty Books Desire Giving Passion Poetry Quality more...

She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.
→

Walter Pater

Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)

1708

Did you find Walter Pater's interesting saying about Helen Of Troy? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Critic quotes from Critic Walter Pater about Helen Of Troy collected since August 4, 1839! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!

Walter Pater quotes about: Age Art Beauty Books Desire Giving Passion Poetry Quality