Platonic Year

Famous quotes containing the words platonic year, platonic and/or year:

    “So the Platonic Year
    Whirls out new right and wrong,
    Whirls in the old instead;
    All men are dancers and their tread
    Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Odour of blood when Christ was slain
    Made all Platonic tolerance vain
    And vain all Doric discipline.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I know not whether Laws be right
    Or whether Laws be wrong;
    All that we know who live in gaol
    Is that the wall is strong;
    And that each day is like a year,
    A year whose days are long.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)