Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:
“Irrational streams of blood are staining earth;
Empedocles has thrown all things about;
Hector is dead and there’s a light in Troy;
We that look on but laugh in tragic joy.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”
—Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)