Life/death

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or death:

“The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)