Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the wo...rld in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple. There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;... And God will grow no talons at his heels, Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundre...d years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »