Verbal Roots Beginning

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

“The “text” is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.”
—Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)

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

“The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)