The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,... is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn't ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. ...It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes--love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself--and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others--should we call it "joy"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it. Try your design on the best sc...hool. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities. It is difficult to class them, some are too young, some are slow, some perverse. Each requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher, of a day of love and progress, is often closed at evening by despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. ...He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'T is worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to ha...nd, he is a cripple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He serveth the servant, The brave he loves amain;... He kills the cripple and the sick, And straight begins again. For gods delight in gods, And thrust the weak aside; To him who scorns their charities, Their arms fly open wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a litt...le as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, i...t will certainly be bad, but you may be sure I shall be still a loving husband, and we shall make the best of it together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »