The flattering, if arbitrary, label, First Lady of the Theatre, takes its toll. The demands are great, not only in energy but even...tually in dramatic focus. It is difficult, if not impossible, for a star to occupy an inch of space without bursting seams, cramping everyone else's style and unbalancing a play. No matter how self-effacing a famous player may be, he makes an entrance as a casual neighbor and the audience interest shifts to the house next door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first month of his absence I was numb and sick... And where he'd left his promise Life did not turn or kick. The seed, the seed of love was sick.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avai...l him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,--with woman figuratively representing freedom--and yet all free,... save woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk The first song of his happiness, and the song woke... His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was I to see and to foresee,... So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom yet for many a May. If only I could recollect it, such A day of days! I let it come and go As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow; It seemed to mean so little, meant so much; If only now I could recall that touch, First touch of hand in hand--Did one but know!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men conceive themselves as morally superior to those with whom they differ in opinion. A Socialist who thinks that the opinions of... Mr. Gladstone on Socialism are unsound and his own sound, is within his rights; but a Socialist who thinks that his opinions are virtuous and Mr. Gladstone's vicious, violates the first rule of morals and manners in a Democratic country; namely, that you must not treat your political opponent as a moral delinquent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so p...owerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You shall observe the festival of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the ...festival of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »