The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; ea...ten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Americanistic pitch, of course, was old hat on the Bible circuit, as were subterranean virility fears common, the latter alway...s animating the former in the extra-defensive and recurrent dream of the evangelist in which he sees himself, in full color and cinemascope, a lantern-jawed begrenaded U.S. Marine leaping out of a trench to beat the living shit out of the Devil who, widespread was the assumption, wore perfume, spoke Russian, and carried a purse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? Someone dressed in... soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces. What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into ...the fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown ...of twelve stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harper...s harping with their harps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book o...f life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »