A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being valuable, but less so than gold.
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Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or age:
“A Shape all light, which with one hand did fling
Dew on the earth, as if she were the dawn,
And the invisible rain did ever sing
A silver music on the mossy lawn;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A mans hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)