Lost Nation

Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or nation:

“I sing what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)