Simple Roots

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:

    This is my letter to the world,
    That never wrote to me—
    The simple news that Nature told,
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    The roots of the grass strain,
    Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—

    And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)