Growing Species

Famous quotes containing the words growing and/or species:

“and yet hands, hands growing out of pictures,
hands crawling out of the walls,
hands that excite oblivion,
like a wind ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)