When the soul of man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality..., language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer r...eason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,... Where ignorant armies clash by night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Summer involves going down as a steep flight of steps To a narrow ledge over the water. Is this it, then,... This iron comfort, these reasonable taboos, Or did you mean it when you stopped? And the face Resembles yours, the one reflected in the water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and ...of the race of giants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No Raven's wing can stretch the flight so far As the torn bandrols of Napoleon's war.... Choose then your climate, fix your best abode, He'll make you deserts and he'll bring you blood. How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind, Tho slain by millions, millions left behind? Has not conscription still the power to weild Her annual faulchion o'er the human field? A faithful harvester!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him... who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on thei...r first flight are hardly so hovered around.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »