Bronze Saints

Famous quotes containing the words bronze and/or saints:

    “Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “All saints revile her, and all sober men
    Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean—”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)