Famous quotes containing the words real, root and/or window:
“We have proved we are not modern. We have proved we are not religious in the real sense of the word. We have proved that we cannot afford democracy.”
—Muhammad Heikal (b. 1923)
“The bud of the apple is desire, the down-falling gold,
The catbird’s gobble in the morning half-awake
These are real only if I make them so. Whistle
For me, grow green for me and, as you whistle and grow green,
Intangible arrows quiver and stick in the skin
And I taste at the root of the tongue the unreal of what is real.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“‘Who is it that this dark night
Underneath my window plaineth?’”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)