"If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the booklets--the little thri...lling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty--surely they are due to Steam?" "And when we travel by electricity--if I may venture to develop your theory--we shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What heaven-entreated heart is this Stands trembling at the gate of bliss;... Holds fast the door, yet dares not venture Fairly to open it and enter? Whose definition is a doubt 'Twixt life and death, 'twixt in and out?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where no great fish venture nor small fish glitter and dart,... only the anemones and flower of the wild sea-thyme cover the silent walls of an old sea-city at rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In baseball, home plate is where you begin your journey and also your destination. You venture out onto the bases, to first and se...cond and third, always striving to return to the spot from which you began. There is danger on the basepath--pick-offs, rundowns, force-outs, double plays--and safety only back at home. I am not saying, as a true fan would, that baseball is the key to life; rather, life is the key to baseball. We play or watch this game because it draws pictures of our desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's an absolutely humbling experience to have literally hundreds of people looking at you with their eyes telling a story of thei...r own hopes and dreams.... There's a feeling that what you have attained for yourself--although only relatively short-lived, for a year--is a lifetime venture. It's a feeling of destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. The ice in... the pond at length begins to be honeycombed, and I can set my heel in it as I walk. Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually melting the snow; the days have grown sensibly longer; and I see how I shall get through the winter without adding to my wood-pile, for large fires are no longer necessary. I am on the alert for the first signs of spring, to hear the chance note of some arriving bird, or the striped squirrel's chirp, for his stores must be now nearly exhausted, or see the woodchuck venture out of his winter quarters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and... glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among so many of our contemporaries. Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one's self away from that half of the race life is to shut one's self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, wome...n are beginning to rise in response to the Mother's call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get a...way from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »