Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    And at his heart there may have gnawed
    Sick memories of a dead faith foiled and flawed
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)