Lydian Greek Coins

Famous quotes containing the words lydian, greek and/or coins:

    “So, Anactoria, go you away
    With what calm carelessness of sorrow!
    Your gleaming footstep and your grace,
    When comes another morrow,
    Much would I rather then behold
    Than Lydian cars or infantry.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “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 (1819–1900)

    “No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
    I drew the white sheet over the islands
    And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)