Early Blight

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or blight:

“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“This luxury of the precocious child,
Time’s precious chronic invalid,—
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us—
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)