Famous quotes containing the words root, glass and/or company:
“Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flowerbut if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“The awaited scream rises,
the shattering
of glass and the cracking
of bone
a polar tumult as when
black ice booms....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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 manthe one he used to be.”
—Cesare Pavese (19081950)