The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civ...il society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My generation, dear Ron, swore on the Altar of God that whoever proclaims the intent of destroying the Jewish state or the Jewish ...people, or both, seals his fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent... to be lost that their loss is no disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or a...m.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young, and so thin, and so straight. So straight! as if nothing could ever bend her.... But poor men would bend her, and doing things with poor men, Being much in bed, and babies would bend her over, And the rest of things in life that were for poor women, Coming to them grinning and pretty with intent to bend and to kill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intent escalator lifts a serenade Stilly... Of shoes, umbrellas, each eye attending its shoe, then Bolting outright somewhere above where streets Burst suddenly in rain. . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the c...hance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honour and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent, So those who enter death must go as little children sent.... Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bad lover, like the bad poet, perhaps because of a preoccupation with self, is essentially inattentive, doesn't listen, doesn'...t anticipate. Or, just as bad, proceeds by rote, first this thing and then the next, and therefore leaves no opportunity for discovery, or departure. Form to me implies an alertness to the demands of your material and an orchestration of effects. It is some happy combination of the poet's intent and the poem's esprit and the necessary compromises between the two. We can't be too willful, but we must have things in mind. We don't want to be the wimps of our own poems, but we'd be happy to be led into some lovely places. And we'd like to have some control after we lose control, at least enough to throw light on what has just hap pened, perhaps even to articulate what it has meant to us. And of course there are moments when we'd be better off being appreciatively silent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »