[He] made himself the rock against which crashed the successive waves of dissent.

-Schoenbaum,ThomasJ
  Of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during theVietnamWar. Waging Peace andWar.

Everybody's got to reclaim these thingsöpoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismöand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

-Smith, Patti
  In Rolling Stone , 27 May.

The poem in the rock and The poem in the mind Are not one. It was in dying I tried to make them so.

-Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)
  'The Epitaph'.

We are beginning to see now it is matter is the scaffolding of spirit; that the poet emerges from morphemes and phonemes; that as form in sculpture is the prisoner of the hard rock, so in everyday life it is the plain facts and natural happenings that conceal God and reveal him to us little by little under the mind's tooling.

-Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)
  Frequencies,'Emerging'.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

-Toplady, Augustus Montague
  Hymn.

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

-Webster, Daniel
  Speech, NewYork,10

Givea manthesecure possessionof a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease on a garden, and he will convert it into a desert† The magic ofturns sand to gold.

-Young, Arthur
PROPERTY1787  Journal entries, 30 Jul and 7 Nov, published in Travels in France and Italy (1794).