Well then! Wagner was a revolutionary--he fled the Germans.... As an artist one has no home in Europe outside Paris: the délicate...sse in all five artistic senses that is presupposed by Wagner's art, the fingers for nuances, the psychological morbidity are found only in Paris. Nowhere else is this passion in questions of form to be found, this seriousness in mise en scène--which is Parisian seriousness par excellence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things, A blackened people, living and dying in silence.... (Enfin, dans un amas de choses, sombre, immense, Un peuple noir, vivant et mourant en silence.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at i...ts inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An old French sentence says, "God works in moments,"M"En peu d'heure Dieu labeure." We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or ...grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom.... You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all div...ine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is probable that in a fit of generosity the men of the United States would have enfranchised its women en masse; and the go...vernment now staggering under the ballots of ignorant, irresponsible men, must have gone down under the additional burden of the votes which would have been thrown upon it, by millions of ignorant, irresponsible women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous wit...ty saying that is not immediately clear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »