Speaker Died

Famous quotes containing the words speaker and/or died:

“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Each of us like you
has died once,
each of us like you
stands apart, like you
fit to be worshipped.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)