It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the b...eings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new--whether it be the settlement of new lands or the initiation of new ...ways of life--is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Separatism of any kind promotes marginalization of those unwilling to grapple with the whole body of knowledge and creative works ...available to others. This is true of black students who do not want to read works by white writers, of female students of any race who do not want to read books by men, and of white students who only want to read works by white writers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Going down for the last time, the last breath lying, I grapple with eels like ropes--it's ether, it's queer... and then, at last, it's done. Now the scavengers arrive, the hard crawlers who come to clean up the ocean floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple.... Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;... But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of th...e cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »