bronze quotes

It was the lovely moonshe lifted Slowly her white brow among Bronze cloud-waves that ebbed and drifted Faintly, faintlier afar.

-John Freeman
  'It  Was the Lovely Moon'.

Exegi monumentum, aere perennius. I have completed a memorial more lasting than bronze.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Odes, bk.3, no.30, l.1.

Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirs or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife† Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!

- Alexander Rodchenko
Quoted in Robert HughesThe Shock of the New (1980).

You cankeep thethings of bronze and stoneand give me one man to remember me just once a year.

- (Alfred) Damon Runyon
  Last words.