Forgetful

Famous quotes containing the word forgetful:

    Winter kept us warm, covering
    Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
    A little life with dried tubers.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    And weeping fast as she had breath
    Janet implored us, ‘Wake her from her sleep!’
    And would not be instructed in how deep
    Was the forgetful kingdom of death.
    John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)