Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

“Think of the importance of Friendship in the education of men.... It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)