An editor once said to me, "If I didn't know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I would like your work." And once an edit...or wrote me, "Your poems are dynamic, colorful, exciting, but too strong for a woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the e...ffect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, We'd like to work but we're feeling too weak,... We'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, We'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, We'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scrip...tures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangero...us as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospect...ive symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men who think of superannuation at sixty-one are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves... to work. It is my opinion that nothing seasons the mind for endurance like hard work. Port wine should perhaps be added.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Money talks" because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally ...achieved work, skill, and experience. Money, however, is also a specialist technology like writing; and as writing intensifies the visual aspect of speech and order, and as the clock visually separates time from space, so money separates work from the other social functions. Even today money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber. As a vast social metaphor, bridge, or translator, money--like writing--speeds up exchange and tightens the bonds of interdependence in any community. It gives great spatial expansion and control to political organizations, just as writing does, or the calendar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »