Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood;... And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway plod-- Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For character too is a process and an unfolding ... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too sel...f confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and pers...onalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drin...k. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,... Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, nearly all the "sights" in America fall under the head of conditions. Hollywood, Reno, the sharecroppers' homes in ...the South, the mining towns of Pennsylvania, Coney Island, the Chicago stockyards, Macy's, the Dodgers, Harlem, even Congress, the forum of our liberties, are spectacles rather than sights, to use the term in the colloquial sense of "Didn't he make a holy spectacle of himself?" An Englishman of almost any political opinion can show a visitor through the Houses of Parliament with a sense of pride or at least of indulgence toward his national foibles and traditions. The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress--these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress--t...hese, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »