The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still,--and there was so much sky, more than ...at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here they are. The soft eyes open. If they have lived in a wood... It is a wood. If they have lived on plains It is grass rolling Under their feet forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart b...eat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the univer...se, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty ...of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive--you are leaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She makes the willow shiver in the sun For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze... Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet. She causes boys to pile new plums and pears On disregarded plate. The maidens taste And stray impassioned in the littering leaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are wearied of our huts And the smoky smell of our garments.... We are sick with desire of the sun And the grass on the mountains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »