Purity

Purity

Purity is the absence of impurity or contaminants in a substance. The term also applies to the absence of vice in human character.

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Famous quotes containing the word purity:

    The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The purity of today will invest us like a breeze,
    Only be hard, spare, ironical: something one can
    Tip one’s hat to and still get some use out of.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    I know the purity of pure despair,
    My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)