Verbal Roots Beginning

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

    “The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “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)

    “Have you no beginning and end? Which heart is
    the real one? Which eye the seer?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)