Cloister Quotes
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Inveni fateor in rege monachum, claustrum in curia, in palatio monasterii disciplinam. I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.
— ?c.1160 Lament for David I, King of Scotland. Quoted in John Fordoun Chronicle of Scotland (c.1384), bk.5, ch.43.
In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister.
wystan hugh auden— "The Protestant Mystics", p. 73
