deadliness quotes

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

- (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
'Art'. Collected in Essays (1948).

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness:

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.