A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: th...is is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids o...f democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dust fanned in scraped puffs from the earth Between his arms, and blood turned his face inside out,... To demonstrate its suppleness Of veins, as he perfected his role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a time of confusion and rapid change like the present, when terms are continually turning inside out and the names of things ha...rdly keep their meaning from day to day, it's not possible to write two honest paragraphs without stopping to take crossbearings on every one of the abstractions that were so well ranged in ornate marble niches in the minds of our fathers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, Wh...at it will do with you? You will come here & get books that will open your eyes, & your ears, & your curiosity, & turn you inside out or outside in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is,... What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Keep the home fires burning, While your hearts are yearning,... Though your lads are far away They dream of home. There's a silver lining Through the dark cloud shining; Turn the dark cloud inside out, Till the boys come home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I light matches and put them in my mouth, and my teeth melt but the greenery hisses on.... I drink blood from my wrists and the green slips out like a bracelet. Couldn't one of my keepers get a lawn mower and chop it down if I turned inside out for an hour?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside... from outside: I have drawn no lines:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the storm rattles my windowpane I'll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain... For I'll have plunged deep inside the thrill Of conjuring spring with the force of my will, Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »