Primitive/literature

Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or literature:

    “The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)