Physical Desecration

Famous quotes containing the words physical and/or desecration:

    “The physical world is meaningless tonight
    And there is no other.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars
    to escape writing of the worst thing of all—
    not the crimes of other, not even our own death,
    but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough
    so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
    mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)