Rhyme/history

Famous quotes containing the words rhyme and/or history:

“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)