Dirt/neurosis

Famous quotes containing the words dirt and/or neurosis:

“Nothing would give up life;
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)