untainted Quotes

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

The white flower of a blameless life.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

To the pure all things are pure!