I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,... icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, then unstinted, Love did sip, And cherries plucked fresh from the lip;... On cheeks and roses free he fed; Lasses like autumn plums did drop, And lads indifferently did crop A flower and a maidenhead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye, and death i'th' other,... And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor. ...They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »