The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump m...ass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To Him, the painted swallow, to Him, the lump of amber,... to Him, the boy and girl with roses and love-knots, to Him, the little cat to play beneath the Manger....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled "the past," and, having thus emptied t...his deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.... It finds the thought and the thoug...ht finds the words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sparrow enters the tree, Whereon immediately... A snow lump thrice his own slight size Descends on him and showers his head and eyes, And overturns him,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly... we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greet...ings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.... Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby,... Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, im...posing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me acr...oss space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist.... When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »