Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to l...ook after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inv...entions--telephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehicles--they are all leading somewhere. It's up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts...; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he i...s capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have for years been intrigued with the ways in which Jews and southerners are alike--stepchildren of an anguished history. From ...the period before the Civil War, southerners have used Old Testament analogies to portray themselves as "the chosen people," surrounded and outnumbered but destined to survive and triumph against overwhelming odds. This analogy has endured deep in the southern psyche, influencing subconsciously its reactions to events. For example, in 1967, during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, polls showed that the South was caught up in military fervor and admiration for the lightning victory of the Israelis. It was almost as if Moshe Dayan had become the Israeli Stonewall Jackson, outthinking and outfighting his Arab foes, just as the boys in gray had done in the Shenandoah Valley against vastly superior numbers in the 1860s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves--that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives--experience...s so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the... validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, somethi...ng outside of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something joyous in the elegies Of birds. They seem... Caught up in a formal delight, Though the mourning dove whistles of despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »