Quotes About Vestal

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Mary: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

They lived in the temple annex, where they devoted ten years to being educated, another ten to officiating and yet another ten to instructing new recruits. They ensured the upkeep of the public hearth under the authority of their most senior member, the great Vestal (Virgo Vestalis Maxima).

The Vestal, with her silvery content, ?The Lesbian, with the passion and the pain,— Which creature hath their one Creator lent ?More light of heaven? Who would dare restrain The beams of either? who the radiance mar Of the white planet or the burning star?

Over the years, Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame.

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.