Would mankind be but contented without the continual use of that little but significant pronoun "mine" or "my own," with what luxu...rious delight might they revel in the property of others!... But if envy makes me sicken at the sight of everything that is excellent out of my own possession, then will the sweetest food be sharp as vinegar, and every beauty will in my depraved eyes appear as deformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody who has any kind of creative imagination can possibly be anything but disappointed with real life.... Of course, you could ...always argue that you live more intensely in your mental world-substitute than we who only wallow in the real thing.... But the trouble is that you can't be content to stick to your beautiful ersatz. You have to descend into evening clothes and Ciro's and chorus girls--and perhaps even politics ... with lamentable results. Because you're not at home with these lumpy bits of matter. They depress you, they bewilder you, they shock you and sicken you and make a fool of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman's glove, Then sicken inclusively outwards:... . . . the incessant recital Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms, Each one double-yolked with meaning and meaning's rebuttal: For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though castles topple on their warder's heads, Though palaces and pyramids do slope... Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germens tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken--answer me To what I ask you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken? How can you be alive you growths of spring?... How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain? Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you? Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »