Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)