Verbal Roots Beginning

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

    “Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. If we are to continue talking about “data” in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)

    “The roots of the grass strain,
    Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—

    And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    “In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)