quotations about antiquity
And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi," these times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
The door to the past is a strange door. It swings open and things pass through it, but they pass in one direction only. No man can return across that threshold, though he can look down still and see the green light waver in the water weeds.
LOREN C. EISELEY
The Immense Journey
Though antiquity was not forgotten, it was, in some sense, overpassed.
HOWARD B. WHITE
Antiquity Forgot
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they're the gods of antiquity
If something you missed didn't even exist
It was just an ideal, is it such a surprise?
ELVIS COSTELLO
"All This Useless Beauty"