Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Source: The Mists of Avalon, Bk. IV, Ch. 7, 1982.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley, (Jun 3 1930-1999), US novelist; She is best known for The Mists of Avalon, 1982 and The Firebrand, 1987.