Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we wer...e out of our place in public meetings; far be it from us, when women assemble, and a man has a thought in his soul, burning for utterance, to retaliate upon him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps That may shake down into a world perhaps;... People this world, by chance created so, With random persons whom you do not know--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy for us, that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assembl...e with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human exp...erience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Take the cylinders out of my kidneys, The connecting-rod out of my brain,... Take the cam-shaft from out of my backbone, And Assemble the engine again.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the musician, before he has begun his work, all is in readiness so that the operation of his creative spirit may find, right f...rom the start, the appropriate matter and means, without any possibility of error. He will not have to make this matter and means submit to any modification; he need only assemble elements which are clearly defined and ready-made. But in how different a situation is the poet! Before him is ordinary language, this aggregate of means which are not suited to his purpose, not made for him. There have not been physicians to determine the relationships of these means for him; there have not been constructors of scales; no diapason, no metronome, no certitude of this kind. He has nothing but the coarse instrument of the dictionary and the grammar. Moreover, he must address himself not to a special and unique sense like hearing, which the musician bends to his will, and which is, besides, the organ par excellence of expectation and attention; but rather to a general and diffused expectation, and he does so through a language which is a very odd mixture of incoherent stimuli.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »