Genius sits in a glass house--but in an unbreakable one--conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches ou...t its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck.... (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. "New art," it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in "ism.")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the broad cloud-driving moon in the clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield,... And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See! sleep hath fallen: the trees are asleep: The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope ...to escape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you... were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:... Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishmen...t. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.... It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the... boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »