Bloom

Famous quotes containing the word bloom:

“I did not know the woman I would be
nor that blood would bloom in me
each month like an exotic flower,
nor that children,
two monuments,
would break from between my legs....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)