I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls com...e from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when the right of the individual is made sacred, when the image of God in human form, whether in marble or in clay, whether in... alabaster or in ebony, is consecrated and inviolable, when men have been taught to look beneath the rags and grime, the pomp and pageantry of mere circumstance and have regard unto the celestial kernel uncontaminated at the core,--when race, color, sex, condition, are realized to be the accidents, not the substance of life, and consequently as not obscuring or modifying the inalienable title to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,--then is mastered the science of politeness, the art of courteous contact, which is naught but the practical application of the principal [sic] of benevolence, the back bone and marrow of all religion; then woman's lesson is taught and woman's cause is won--not the white woman nor the black woman nor the red woman, but the cause of every man or woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by care...ful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light--... The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would find by the edge of that water The collar-bone of a hare... Worn thin by the lapping of water, And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare At the old bitter world where they marry in churches....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »