Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    “Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “Where the world ends
    The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
    Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
    The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
    The roots of the world.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)