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)

    “Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “Before the beginning of years
    There came to the making of man
    Time, with a gift of tears;
    Grief, with a glass that ran;”
    —A.C. (Algernon Charles)