Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    I have put a padlock
    on you, Mother, dear dead human,
    so that your great bells,
    those dear white ponies,
    can go galloping, galloping,
    wherever you are.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
    Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
    Through living roots awaken in my head.
    But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.
    Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)