Savage Won

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or won:

“After Stéphane Mallarmé, after Paul Verlaine, after Gustave Moreau, after Puvis de Chavannes, after our own verse, after all our subtle colour and nervous rhythm, after the faint mixed tints of Conder, what more is possible? After us the Savage God.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)