You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever you are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and... say, "Okay, life's a fact. People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between my chin and throat his mouth slipped over and over.... Still between my arm and shoulder, I feel the brush of his hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War bent and kissed the forehead, that bright brow,... ignored the chin and the sweet mouth, for that and the low laugh were his, Eros ingratiate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... Anne has a way with flowers to take the place Of what she's lost: she goes down on one knee... And lifts their faces by the chin to hers And says their names, and leaves them where they are."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you solemnly That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten by that beak and become part of him, to share thos...e wings and those eyes-- What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment; what a life after death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,... And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »