The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out o...f the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-- I keep it, staying at Home--... With a Bobolink for a Chorister-- And an Orchard, for a Dome--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,... Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolati...on from life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrati...ng inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known--it was used pri...marily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is "the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy's pony."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
but Overall is beyond me: is the sum of these events I cannot draw, the ledger I cannot keep, the accounting... beyond the account:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »