Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that is wrong. They know less, that's why they writ...e. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too late have I loved you, o beauty so ancient and young; too late have I loved you! And behold you were inside of me, and I was o...utside of myself, and that was where I was looking for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a ring of skull- bone fused to the inside of a helmet; a pair of eyeglasses... taken off the eyes of an eyewitness, without glass, which vanished, when a white flash sparkled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those of us who are in this world to educate--to care for--young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little t...o do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with the worth inside of heads and hearts. In fact, that's our domain: the heads and hearts of the next generation, the thoughts and feelings of the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At first, people stood along the schoolchildren's path and asked them anxiously, "Tell me, my little goats, how do your heads feel...? Don't your brains feel too heavy? Does it ever happen that the inside of your heads becomes so heavy that you have to bend your necks?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that... I never had heard the town clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn,--a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I had never seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a shire town. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the 29th of April, as I was fishing ... I heard a singular rattling sound, somewhat like that of the sticks which boys play wit...h their fingers, when, looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a nighthawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport. The merlin it seemed to me it might be called: but I care not for its name. It was the most ethereal flight I had ever witnessed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a co...medy, and a tragedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that carrying a baby inside of you is like running as fast as you can. It feels like finally letting go and filling yourse...lf up to the widest limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »