Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:
“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutalitythe principle of order versus the split atom.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallowthe easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots dont reach ground waterwill dry up and blow away.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“You know, Frank, Im beginning to get a new perspective on this crawling little animal known as man. Why a dog or a cat or a bird is cleverer than any human. They sense me immediately. But these shrewd detectives of yours. Take away one of mans senses and you render him helpless.”
—Lester Cole (19041985)