Reciprocal Square Root

Famous quotes containing the words reciprocal, square and/or root:

    “I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

    “This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Black creeps from root to root,
    each leaf
    cuts another leaf on the grass,
    shadow seeks shadow,
    then both leaf
    and leaf-shadow are lost.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)