What is deep?

Famous quotes containing the word deep:

“I think ... I have inside me a sort of answer to the want of today: to the real, deep want of the English people, not to just what they fancy they want. And gradually, I shall get my hold on them.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
A point outside the glittering current;
My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)