Famous quotes containing the words won, academy and/or award:
“Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.”
—Anastasio Somoza (1896–1956)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“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)