Verbal Roots Beginning

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

    “The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Where the world ends
    The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
    Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
    The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
    The roots of the world.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)