Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)