She believed that she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of know ing our own nothingness beyond our own circl...e, was becoming necessary for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Olaf (being to all intents a corpse and wanting any rag... Upon what god unto him gave) responds, without getting annoyed "I will not kiss your f.ing flag"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Different as the two poets are in many ways, and though Frost conducted a kind of private war with Eliot, it is possible to discer...n interesting resemblances beneath the obvious contrasts. In both men the central theme is metaphysical desolation. Both poets are profoundly at odds with the current of secular optimism flowing from the Enlightenment through the nineteenth century. Frost's New England landscape, spare, hard, and usually unyield ing, inhabited by its declining Yankee stock, can be taken as an extended metaphor expressive of that desolation. In Frost's poetry the central persona or dramatic voice speaking the poems finds ways to live with that desolation. In Eliot's poetry the central persona lives through and finally beyond the desolation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love without marriage can sometimes be very awkward for all concerned; but marriage without love simply removes that institution f...rom the territory of the humanly admissible, to my mind. Love is a state in which one lives who loves, and whoever loves has given himself away; love then, and not marriage, is belong ing. Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the ...creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,--and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet order ing, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims, and their places. Her great function is Praise: she enters into no contest, but infallibly adjudges the crown of contest. By her office and place, she is protected from all danger and temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the swimmer depends on water, so the writer depends on language. To swim well, we must let ourselves be enveloped by the water,... sink into it, become a part of it. To write well, we must similarly let ourselves be enveloped by the language, sink into it, become a part of it. In short, as swimmers, instead of fight ing the water to avoid drowning, we must learn to use our body-in-the-water so it will float effortlessly: then, we can start to swim. Similarly, as writers, instead of fighting the language to make it express our ideas, we must learn to use our mind-in-the-language so that our ideas-in-words will float effortlessly; then, we can start to write.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping?... LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American politics, and ... each group suffers wh...en it fails to grasp the dimensions of the other's struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confirmation of Clarence Thomas, one of the most conservative voices to be added to the [Supreme] Court in recent memory, carr...ies a sobering message for the African- American community.... As he begins to make his mark upon the lives of African Americans, we must acknowledge that his successful nomination is due in no small measure to the support he received from black Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »