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)

“You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly!”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)