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From 'The New Colossus', inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, New York harbour,1883.
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appals. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
Annie DillardWhen I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain.
john keatsChaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
Alexander PopeAn excellent little book highly informative, full of challenging and stimulating ideas, and teeming with shrewd clinical insights.
arnold m. ludwigWhat I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
jean-paul sartre