Famous quotes containing the words dark age, dark, age and/or book:
“—All this Dark Age machinery
On which we had tormented you
To life.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we bent down above the fading coals
And talked of the dark folk who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Raise children for your old age as you would store up grain against famine.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar—that I call an achievement.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)