Famous quotes containing the words greatest love, greatest and/or love:
“The greatest love is a mother’s;
Then comes a dog’s,
Then comes a sweetheart’s.”
—(20th century)
“Every poem of value must have a residue [of language].... It cannot be exhausted because our lives are not long enough to do so. Indeed, in the greatest poetry, the residue may seem to increase as our experience increases—that is, as we become more sensitive to the particular ignitions in its language. We return to a poem not because of its symbolic [or sociological] value, but because of the waste, or subversion, or difficulty, or consolation of its provision.”
—William Logan, U.S. educator. “Condition of the Individual Talent,” The Sewanee Review, p. 93, Winter 1994.
“the churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)