This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations tha...t we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blake and Goethe were individualists par excellence, uncompromisingly protective of their single vision. In both Faust Part II and... The Four Zoas, emphasis on the universality of the poet's message contrasts with the resistant texture of a compressed style and the striking complexity of the mythological machinery. Blake likes to emphasize that he is not writing for the simple-minded; Goethe takes a teasing pleasure in keeping philologists busy. Faust and The Four Zoas are dramatic epics of Humanity, but embodied in a mythic language whose uniqueness and quirkiness are jealously guarded. Blake never published The Four Zoas, though it culminates his early prophecies and provides the indispensable key to the later ones. And Goethe refused to allow Faust Part II to be printed in its entirety until after his death. Both poets postponed the public's discovery of their central works; secrecy was enforced as long as it could be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,... Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kirsten: So you're the new public relations man. Joe: Yeah.... Kirsten: What happened to Eddie? Joe: Eddie quit. Kirsten: I liked him. Why'd he quit? Joe: Well, a little matter of personal integrity. Eddie didn't feel that getting dates for potentates was part of public relations. Kirsten: But isn't it? Joe: Well, there's a name for it but it's not "public relations."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tony Abbott: I didn't know you played a saxophone. Joe Pendleton: Yeah, well, a lot of people don't know it. Even after they ...see me playing it they don't know it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs boiling, over the west past all control... rolling and swamps the heartbeat and repeats sea beyond sea after unbearable suns; think: poems fixed this landscape: Blake, Donne, Keats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ratso Rizzo: Joe, do me a favor, huh? This is my place, am I wrong? Joe Buck: No, you ain't wrong.... Ratso Rizzo: You know, in my own place, my name ain't Ratso. I mean, it just so happens that in my own place, my name is Enrico Salvatore Rizzo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:... 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »