Teeming Quotes 

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 Dillard

— 1974  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

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When 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 keats

— 'When I Have FearsThat I May Cease to Be' (1818)

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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

Alexander Pope

— 1735  Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.71-2.

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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.


— Mahatma Gandhi[16]

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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Emma Lazarus

— The New Colossus (1883)

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An excellent little book highly informative, full of challenging and stimulating ideas, and teeming with shrewd clinical insights.

arnold m. ludwig

— British Journal of Psychiatry, review of Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind.

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I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.


— Chapter 20: At the House In Great Portland Street

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Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance; The field, the forest, green and gay; The dappled slope, the tedded hay; Sees the reddening orchard blow, The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.

thomas warton

— Thomas Warton, Ode, The First of April, line 97.

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This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of Majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress built by Nature for herself, Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth.


— John of Gaunt, Scene I

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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

jean-paul sartre

— On Alberto Giacometti’s work, Situations, in Braziller (1965)

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