Saving Grace Award

Famous quotes containing the words saving, grace and/or award:

“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“A darkness out of Asia that had crossed
Old Attic grace and Spartan discipline
With violence.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“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)