Children are as destined biologically to break away as we are, emotionally, to hold on and protect. But thinking independently com...es of acting independently. It begins with a two-year-old doggedly pulling on flannel pajamas during a July heat wave and with parents accepting that the impulse is a good one. When we let go of these small tasks without anger or sorrow but with pleasure and pride we give each act of independence our blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills?... I mean flee to my lodge in the... hills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
still a betrayal room for the till-death-do-us and yet a death, as in the unlocking of scissors... that makes the now separate parts useless, even to cut each other up as we did yearly under the crayoned-in sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And though your daisies are an unwanted death, I wade through the smell of their cancer... and recognize the prognosis, its cartful of loss . . . I say now, you gave what you could.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
you who baited your hook with wide-awake dreams, and calls and letters and once a luncheon,... and twice a reading by me for you. But I wouldn't!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plan...t, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour's househol...d, and, underneath, another--secret and passionate and intense--which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young Dawn of our Eternal Day!... We saw Thine eyes break from the East And chase the trembling shades away. We saw Thee and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »