Scholars Alive

Famous quotes containing the words scholars and/or alive:

    “Statistics justify and scholars seize
    The salients of colonial policy.
    What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
    To savages, expendable as Jews?”
    —Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

    “For we saw him throw to the swift flood
    A girl alive with his hooks through her lips....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)