Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or body:
“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“When my body leaves me
Im lonesome for it.
but body
goes away to I dont know where
and its lonesome to drift
above the space it
fills when its here.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)