A more voluptuous night I never enjoyed. Five times was I fairly lost in supreme rapture. Louisa was madly fond of me; she declare...d I was a prodigy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position... in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future a...nd the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruc...tion leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, "I love you madly" because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would be your wife most gladly!' (Here she twirled her fingers madly)... 'But in England I've a mate! Yes! you've asked me far too late, For in England I've a mate,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of... his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,... Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky-- So at his sight away his fellows fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »