Famous quotes containing the words granitic and/or rock:
“We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the black of desire
we rock and grunt, grunt and
shine”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)