Civic Trust Award

Famous quotes containing the words civic, trust and/or award:

“It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

“Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)