What an antithetical mind!--tenderness, roughness--delicacy, coarseness--sentiment, sensuality--soaring and grovelling, dirt and d...eity--all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitman's famous "Song of Myself." It ...would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feet are considered a delicacy among certain animals, you know.... In fact, there are certain man-eating animals who will eat only... the feet, leave everything else, will not touch one other thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret of poetry is never explained--is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & t...he eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such, 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lady Dellwyn ... for the first time began to entertain some suspicions that she had a heart to bestow. Not that she was actuated b...y that romantic passion which creates indifference to every other object and makes all happiness to consist in pleasing the beloved person, [but] only overstraining delicacy so much as to feel it almost a crime to charm any other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty an...d war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the... brutal insensitivity of the latter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special g...ift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of... beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who for...m the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »