My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical patterns in th...e direction of greater freedom--as is usual with most artists learning a trade. It takes courage, however, to leave all props behind, to cast oneself, like Matisse, upon pure space. I still await that confidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter thin...gs to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in--telephonic, technolo...gical and relational--to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot express the pleasure I have in writing down my thoughts [in her journal], at the very moment--my opinion of people when I... first see them, and how I alter, or how confirm myself in it--and I am much deceived in my foresight, if I shall not have very great delight in reading this living proof of my manner of passing my time, my sentiments, my thoughts of people I know, and a thousand other things in future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be s...o much better, life today is worse than it used to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is... strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the... tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vanishing volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every mom...ent converted into the Adamantine Record of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »