Sterile

Famous quotes containing the word sterile:

    the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
    heroes, lies in
    lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions
    Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)

    Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
    Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
    There is not even silence in the mountains
    But dry sterile thunder without rain
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)