During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of e...xistence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;... Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go, look within, and ask if peace be there: If peace be his--that drooping weary sire, Of theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire, Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.... It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;... A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cot we shared is almost a prison where I can't say buttercup, bobolink,... sugarduck, pumpkin, love ribbon, locket, valentine, summergirl, funnygirl and all those nonsense things one says in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:... Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
'Tis here with boundless pow'r I reign; And ev'ry health which I begin Converts dull port to bright champagne; Such Freedom crowns it, at an inn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »