Primal

Famous quotes containing the word primal:

“Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.”
—Sir William Osler (1849–1919)

“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)