Famous quotes containing the words stems and/or beginning:
“Let me walk through the fields of paper
touching with my wand
dry stems and stunted
butterflies....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one anothers inconstancy.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)