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)

    “April is the cruellest month, breeding
    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    Memory and desire, stirring
    Dull roots with spring rain.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,—when did burdock and plantain sprout first?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)