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)
“Who
Are you
Who is born
In the next room
So loud to my own
That I can hear the womb
Opening and the dark run...?”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch,
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I’m sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)