Primitive/literature

Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or literature:

    “We have as yet had no adequate account of a primitive pine forest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure—pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)