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 »
But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it con...tinues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent s...treaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul de Bursac: You don't think much of me, Captain Morgan. You're wondering why they have chosen me for this mission. I wonder to...o. As you know, I am not a brave man. On the contrary, I'm always frightened. I wish I could borrow your nature for awhile, Captain. When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word failure does not even exist for you. While I, I think always, suppose I fail and that I am frightened. Harry Morgan: Yeah, I can easily see how it wouldn't take much courage to get a notorious patriot off Devils' Island. But uh, but just for professional reasons, I'd like to know how you're going to do it. Paul de Bursac: We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I'm, I'm still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else, perhaps to a better man who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan, or thought:... no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept: terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities of escape open: no route shut,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as... Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed. And that meant something.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 »