I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember... feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that's the great puzzle!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There, full in notes, to ravish all My Earth, I wonder what to call... My dullness; when I heare thee, prettie Creature, bring Thy better odes of Praise, and Sing, To puzzle men: Poore pious Elfe! I am instructed by thy harmonie, To sing the Time's uncertaintie, Safe in my Selfe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect... they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let school-masters puzzle their brain. With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;... Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand fro...m all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Waiting for the race to become official, he began to feel as if he had as much effect on the final outcome of the operation as a s...ingle piece of a jumbo jigsaw puzzle has to its predetermined final design. Only the addition of the missing fragments of the puzzle would reveal if the picture was as he guessed it would be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What are you now? If we could touch one another, if these our separate entities could come to grips,... clenched like a Chinese puzzle . . . yesterday I stood in a crowded street that was live with people, and no one spoke a word, and the morning shone. Everyone silent, moving. . . . Take my hand. Speak to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I held a bayonet that was for the earth of your stomach.... The belly button singing its puzzle. The intestines winding like the alpine roads. It was made to enter you as you have entered me....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Back from that great-grandfather I have come to puzzle a bending gravestone for his sake,... to question this diminishing and feed a minimum of children their careful slice of suburban cake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything... when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »