The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along th...e primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one's way to where the country is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is n...o danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of ho...lding him hard to some one point which nature has taken to heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and... one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that Root? Is not that the soul of his soul?--A thought too bold,--a dream too wild.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As with a moral view designed To cure the vices of mankind;... His vein, ironically grave, Exposed the fool, and lashed the knave;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are our surety to immortal life, God's hatred of the universal stain--... The heritage, O Fear, of ancient strife Compounded with the tissue of the vein.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who blows death's feather? What glory is colour? I blow the stammel feather in the vein.... The loin is glory in a working pallor. My clay unsuckled and my salt unborn, The secret child, I shift about the sea Dry in the half-tracked thigh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A fig for The seal of fire,... Death hairy-heeled, and the tapped ghost in wood, We make me mystic as the arm of air, The two-a-vein, the foreskin, and the cloud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »