A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart m...y psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So was produced this tragedy In a far tower of ivory... Where, O young men, late in the night All you who drink light and stroke the air Come back, seeking the night, and cry To strict Rapunzel to let down her hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not ye...t finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The majority of women, they have half-a-glass too much and let down their barriers a little. Then they wake up in the morning, rid...dled with guilt and think they can reclaim their virtue by saying, "I don't remember."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dead fed you Amid the slant stones of graveyards.... Pale ghosts who planted you Came in the night-time And let their thin hair blow through your clustered stems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and ...earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I asked if I got sick and died, would you With my black funeral go walking too,... If you'd stand close to hear them talk or pray While I'm let down in that steep bank of clay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »