Late Nineteenth

Famous quotes containing the words late nineteenth, late and/or nineteenth:

“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”
—James A. Michener (b. 1907)

“... asks what it’s too late to ask:
“Where is my life? Where is my life?
What have I done with my life?””
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Posterity—the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism—grows ever harder to conceive.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)