The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or ...die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O sinewy silver biplane, nudging the wind's withers! There, from Kill Devils Hill at Kitty Hawk... Two brothers in their twinship left the dune; Warping the gale, the Wright wind wrestlers veered Capeward, then blading the wind's flank, banked and spun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of the machine, Peregrine machine,... Some still think is Satan, Unto you the thanks For this token flight, Thanks to you and thanks To the brothers Wright....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the ...needs of kids. We need to help them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selve...s. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because you've grown into another one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »