Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life..., which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,... Where ignorant armies clash by night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;... Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it--a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand--as a kind o...f final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act ...with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the f...irst the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind--men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh--who founded the English colonies in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wet century-wide trees Clash in surrounding starlessness above... This lamplit cave, where Jan turns back and farts, Gobs at the grate, and hits the queen of hearts. Rain, wind and fire! The secret, bestial peace!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I did not lose my Sirian perspectives, the Sirian scope of time and space. But I was inside, too, this civilisation's view of itse...lf as all there was of the known world--for on its edges were, to the north, the threatening horsemen, to the northwest, very far away, dark forests full of barbarians whom these people scarcely accounted as human at all, believing them not much more than beasts--and from their point of view, accurately--... The world as understood by this great and powerful Queen was, though it stretched from one end of the main landmass to the other, circumscribed indeed, and the stars that roofed it were understood only--and to a limited extend--by their influences on their movements ... on our movements ... an odd, a startling, a disturbing, clash of focusses and perspectives encompassed me; and as for the historical aspect, this queen knew the story of her own civilisation and some legends, mostly inaccurate, of a "distant" past, which to me, and my mind, was virtually contemporary with her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of justice, save the people From the clash of race and creed,... From the strife of class and faction, Make our nation free indeed;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »