Famous quotes containing the words root, glass and/or company:
“And a man of tan engages
For the springtime of her pride,
Eats the green by easy stages,
Nibbles at the root beneath
With intimidating teeth.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colourless. Colourless.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man—the one he used to be.”
—Cesare Pavese (1908–1950)