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 No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,
 Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
  Majestic silence.  
 No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,
 Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
  Majestic silence. 
 Architecture is frozen music.
 [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]  
 Architecture is frozen music.
 [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] 
 The architect
 Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
  And with him toiled his children, and read more 
 The architect
 Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
  And with him toiled his children, and their lives
   Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
    As offerings unto God. 
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
 When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] 
Amiens, . . . he asked me how read more 
 When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] 
Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer 
build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days 
had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions 
(Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to 
build a Gothic cathedral. 
 The hand that rounded Peter's dome
 And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
  Wrought in a sad read more 
 The hand that rounded Peter's dome
 And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
  Wrought in a sad sincerity;
   Himself from God he could not free;
    He builded better than he knew;
     The conscious stone to beauty grew. 
 In the elder days of Art,
 Builders wrought with greatest care
  Each minute and unseen part;
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 In the elder days of Art,
 Builders wrought with greatest care
  Each minute and unseen part;
   For the gods see everywhere. 
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul