Verbal Roots Beginning

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

    In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    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)

    The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)