I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll a...mount to something as an actress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As words go crying after themselves, leaving the dream Upended in a puddle somewhere... As though "dead" were just another adjective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expre...ssion--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for any ... noun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.... The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the adjective is lost in the sentence, So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat--... You have enchanted me with a single kiss Which can never be undone Until the destruction of language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any campaign--like any good drama--will have its stylized performances. So too will it have one final dramatic element--a plot. Th...e classic unfolding story of any drama involves an introduction, rising action, turning point, falling action, and conclusion. A presidential campaign has all of these essentials--an introduction in the way of speculation about candidates "available" for party nominations; rising action in the form of early organizational efforts, qualifying for public funding, formal announcements, etc.; turning points in the multitude of caucuses and primaries leading to party conventions and nominations; falling action (spiced with unexpected events) in the general election campaign; and a conclusion on election day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in ...a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is difficult even to choose the adjective For this blank cold, this sadness without cause.... The great structure has become a minor house. No turban walks across the lessened floors. The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »