Young Persons Award

Famous quotes containing the words young, persons and/or award:

    “The young elm that must be cut
    because its roots push at the house wall
    taps and scrapes my window
    urgently but when I look round at it
    remains still.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)

    “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)