Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down pato...is which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar- room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boa...ts are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular inte...rvals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird.... Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing, fresh from the Word!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces..., to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Am I your self But as it were in sort or limitation,... To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, And talk to you sometimes?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,... Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky-- So at his sight away his fellows fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »