I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore... Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes d...iscuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I ...had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman's career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be....... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the de...ad limb of time like lice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife;... And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »