Verbal Roots Beginning

Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:

    “A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
    Out of this stony rubbish?”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Man was Cadaver’s masker, the harnessing mantle,
    Windily master of man was the rotten fathom,
    My ghost in his metal neptune
    Forged in man’s mineral.
    This was the god of beginning in the intricate seawhirl,
    And my images roared and rose on heaven’s hill.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)