I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away i...n the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid;... He shall live a man forbid; Weary sev'n-nights, nine times nine, Shall he dwindle, peak and pine; Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves--the fern and the needled pine and the lattice...d frond and the seaweed ribbon--perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. The flowers looking in from the walled garden through my window do not, it is true, see me. But their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. They take it, as it forever spills away radiant into space in a golden waste, to a primal purpose. They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements. They breathe upon the dust, and it is a rose. Say that this is done with neither thought nor passion, and by something other than will. True that a plant may not think; neither will the profoundest of men ever put forth a flower. Of the use and the beauty of flowering there can be no shade of doubt. It is a rare thought of which as much can be said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He slipped his hand and ran away! He hadn't gone a yard when--Bang!... With open jaws, a lion sprang, And hungrily began to eat The boy: beginning at his feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;... But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my body leaves me I'm lonesome for it.... but body goes away to I don't know where and it's lonesome to drift above the space it fills when it's here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »