“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”

E.E. Cummings

e.e cummings - “Knowledge is a polite word for dead but...” 1

Similar quotes

“There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.”

Harper Lee
Read more

“Let the dead bury the dead.”

Harper Lee
Read more

“The past was finished; let the dead bury their dead.”

W. Somerset Maugham
Read more

“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive dispositions.”

Robert Pogue Harrison
Read more

“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”

James Joyce
Read more