dome quotes

The dome of the Pantheon over the vault of theTemple of Peace.

- Donato Bramante
c.1505  Description of his design for St Peter's, Rome. Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it, staying at Home With a Bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard, for a Dome

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
c.1860  Complete Poems, no.324 (first published1864).

   And the gods are absent and the men are still Noli me tangere, my soul is forfeit. Some are now happy in the hive of home, Thigh over thigh and a light in the night nursery, And some are hungry under the starry dome And some sit turning handles.

- (Frederick) Louis MacNeice
  Autumn Journal, part 2.

The Millennium Dome was intended to be New Labour's Xanadu and Tony Blair its Kubla Khan.

- Andrew Rawnsley
  Servants of the People:The Inside Story of New Labour.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die, For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'The Cloud'.

   The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 52.

I hate to join the chortling ranks of [Millennium] Dome rubbishers in the right-wing press†but, alas, I have to admit the Dome is a lemon.

- Polly Toynbee
  In The Guardian, 5 Jan.

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities The fury and the mire of human veins.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Byzantium', stanza1. Collected in TheWinding Stair and Other Poems (1933).