Stems Beginning

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)

    The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind—the mind of a fighter—in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)