When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is... rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll Of black artillery; he comes, though late;... In code corroborating Calvin's creed And cynic tyrannies of honest kings; He comes, nor parlies; and the Town, redeemed, Gives thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds The grimy slur on the Republic's faith implied, Which holds that Man is naturally good, And--more--is Nature's Roman, never to be scourged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to mak...e poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »