Golden Lion Award

Famous quotes containing the words golden, lion and/or award:

    Behold that great Plotinus swim
    Buffeted by such seas;
    Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him,
    But the Golden Race looks dim,
    Salt blood blocks his eyes.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves (1895–1985)