Athens/government

Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or government:

    “Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
    Falling towers
    Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
    Vienna London”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
    Nor heavy knitting of the brow
    Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
    And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
    No government appointed him.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)