You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most o...rdinary crocodile!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world was a huge ball then, the universe a might harmony of ellipses, everything moved mysteriously, incalculable distances th...rough the ether. We used to feel the awe of the distant stars upon us. All that led to was the eighty-eight naval guns, ersatz, and the night air-raids over cities. A magnificent spectacle. After the collapse of the socialist dream, I came to America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whol...e human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulat...ion can make the whole man alive tremble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This music of yours. A manifestation of the highest energy--not at all abstract, but without an object, energy in a void, in pure ...ether--where else in the universe does such a thing appear? We Germans have taken over from philosophy the expression 'in itself,' we use it every day without much idea of the metaphysical. But here you have it, such music is energy itself, yet not as idea, rather in its actuality. I call your attention to the fact that is almost the definition of God. Imitatio Dei--I am surprised it is not forbidden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a plea...sant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be ...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 »
From the foundation of a wooden observatory ... we could see Monadnock, in simple grandeur, in the northwest, rising nearly a thou...sand feet higher, still the "far blue mountain," though with an altered profile. The first day the weather was so hazy that it was in vain we endeavored to unravel the obscurity. It was like looking into the sky again, and the patches of forest here and there seemed to flit like clouds over a lower heaven. As to voyagers of an aerial Polynesia, the earth seemed like a larger island in the ether; on every side, even as low as we, the sky shutting down, like an unfathomable deep, around it, a blue Pacific island, where who knows what islanders inhabit? and as we sail near its shores we see the waving of trees and hear the lowing of kine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is rumored that in the fall the cows here are sometimes fed on cod's heads! The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human ...head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it,--coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! I felt my own skull crack from sympathy. What if the heads of men were to be cut off to feed the cows of a superior order of beings who inhabit the islands in the ether? Away goes your fine brain, the house of thought and instinct, to swell the cud of a ruminant animal!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »