Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Pervading my being:
my dead wife’s comb, in the room
as I tread on it.”
—Taniguchi Buson (1715–1783)
“Now fades the lasts long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)