At last I feel the equal of my parents. Knowing you are going to have a child is like extending yourself in the world, setting up ...a tent and saying "Here I am, I am important." Now that I'm going to have a child it's like the balance is even. My hand is as rich as theirs, maybe for the first time. I am no longer just a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid... in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to ...be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentat...ion in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
should some limb of the devil Destroy the view by cutting down an ash... That shades the road, or setting up a cottage Planned in a government office, shorten his life, Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able ...to think about anything else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust!... The poet's fate is here in emblem shown: He asked for bread, and he received a stone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting a...nd attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avai...ls. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them tonight,... By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »