"Hear me," he said to the white commander. "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are dead; the little children are fre...ezing. My people have no blankets, no food. From where the sun stands, I will fight no more forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anyth...ing in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,... In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I b...ecame tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm... That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is w...ord-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throw the children into the river; civilization has given us too many.... It is better to die than to grow up and find that you are colored. Pluck the stars out of the heavens. The stars mark our destiny. The stars marked my destiny. I am tired of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. Tha...t is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »