In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation's culture and one of the by- produ...cts of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke... As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out th...ere to do unto me what they do unto themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern & his undersea folk. At 11, Let's Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Than...k God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anestheti...c: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I... When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.
And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with their goods; And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of armed men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »