Famous quotes containing the words dark age, dark, age and/or book:
“He said Next time can I bring my friend?
And I thought Does he mean friend?
And I thought Yes he does mean friend.
Which was quite bold in those days.
It was the Dark Ages. Men and men.
And they could still put you in prison for it.
And did, dear.”
—Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
“A man growing old is going
down the dark stairs.
He has been speaking of the Soul
tattooed with the Law.
Of dreams
burnt in the bone.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the seas return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)