Famous quotes containing the words french and/or culture:
“Are ye right there, Michael? are ye right?
Do you think that well be there before the night?
Yeve been so long in startin,
That ye couldnt say for sartin
Still ye might now, Michael, so ye might!”
—William Percy French (18541920)
“I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being crucified for an ideaMthat is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulatedit is probably the idea that European culture ought to survive, that the best qualities of it ought to survive along with whatever cultures, in whatever universality. Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)