Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    A cry of bitter dead men who will never
    Attend a gentle maker of musical joy.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    April is the cruellest month, breeding
    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    Memory and desire, stirring
    Dull roots with spring rain.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)