During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of e...xistence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry.... You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead-- There were no birds to fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent, So those who enter death must go as little children sent.... Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping In the river, never heard... Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves Fling off their iron and cut the green, Leaving circles new and clean While overhead the wing-tips whirred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting o...ut at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for reall...y new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beginnings of altruism can be seen in children as early as the age of two. How then can we be so concerned that they count by ...the age of three, read by four, and walk with their hands across the overhead parallel bars by five, and not be concerned that they act with kindness to others?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The far-off clinching and mating of arches, the leap and thrust of the stone, carrying a great roof overhead, awed and silenced he...r.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
who should moor at his edge And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,... But the hill of dark underfoot diving, Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning. He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »