Dead Organic Matter

Famous quotes containing the words dead, organic and/or matter:

“Along with them
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp looking wretch,
A living dead man.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is ... an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)