The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and ...on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages,--leaf after leaf,--never returning one. One leaf she lays do...wn, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages, and a measure of coal; a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable forms appear; her first misshapen animals, zoophyte, trilobium, fish; then, saurians,--rude forms, in which she has only blocked her future statue, concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king. The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born. But when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own life), an ...oblong puddle invariably acquiring the same form after every shower because of the constant spatulate shape of a depression in the ground. Possibly something of the kind may be said to occur in regard to the imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space. Twang. A good night for nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the adolescent's perspective, it's like discovering that another layer of management (the stepparent) is being thrust between... you and the boss (parent) you've reported to for twelve, fourteen, or even sixteen years. Or worse, that the business (the home) has been bought out from under you. From the teenager's perspective, remarriage can feel like a hostile takeover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Verily, the Indian has but a feeble hold on his bow now; but the curiosity of the white man is insatiable, and from the first he h...as been eager to witness this forest accomplishment. That elastic piece of wood with its feathered dart, so sure to be unstrung by contact with civilization, will serve for the type, the coat-of-arms of the savage. Alas for the Hunter Race! the white man has driven off their game, and substituted a cent in its place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All... we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of ...people who run everything. But we--we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in t...he race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.... Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »