Pure Imaginary

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or imaginary:

“Nay but you, who do not love her,
Is she not pure gold, my mistress?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody’s place in line.”
—Wislawa Szymborska (b. 1923)