Famous quotes containing the word greek:
“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“So you may say,
Greek flower; Greek ecstasy
reclaims for ever
one who died
following
intricate songs lost measure.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“The decline of a culture
Mourned by scholars who dream of the ghosts of Greek boys.”
—Stephen Spender (19091995)
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