Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for tra...nsformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The system--the American one, at least--is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But f...rom kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the ...paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »