Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by rea...l deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The air was clear. He seemed in ultimate peace ... Except that he had no eyes. Rigid and bright Upon the forehead, furred With a light frost, crouched an outrageous bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare... At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a young man lands hatless from the air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so... necessary to him, but he had come back to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the eave-drops fall Heard only in the trances of the blast,... Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,... That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only native tree that dares to lean, Relying on its beauty, to the air.... (Less brave perhaps than trusting are the fair.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »