... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the immortal music of Chopin Which we had been discovering for several months... Since we were fourteen years old. And coffee grounds, And the wonder of hands, and the wonder of the day When the child discovers her first dead hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the quest...ions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray,... What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom--is to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.... Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »