Simple Roots

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:

    “How many desolate creatures on the earth
    Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship
    And social comfort, in a hospital.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “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)