Verbal Roots Beginning

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

“Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

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

“Have you no beginning and end? Which heart is
the real one? Which eye the seer?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)