Famous quotes containing the words stem and/or dead:
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The bone-frame was made for
no such shock knit within terror,
yet the skeleton stood up to it:
the flesh? it was melted away,
the heart burnt out, dead ember,
tendons, muscles shattered, outer husk dismembered....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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