Petrified

Famous quotes containing the word petrified:

“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“Yet the wound, O see the wound
This petrified heart has taken,
Because, created deathless,
Nothing but death remained
To scatter magnificence....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)