If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary c...onsideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many scholars forget ... that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon... our understanding. ... very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bud of the apple is desire, the down-falling gold, The catbird's gobble in the morning half-awake... These are real only if I make them so. Whistle For me, grow green for me and, as you whistle and grow green, Intangible arrows quiver and stick in the skin And I taste at the root of the tongue the unreal of what is real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the ...law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forgotten and stinking they stick in the can. And the vase breath's better and all, and all.... And so for the end of our life to a man, Just over, just over and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat--... ... We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die! Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were with us--they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen, MHe alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair.... He bore a green-white stick in his hand, And, for all burden, care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Come, walk like this,' the dancer said, 'Stick you your toes--stick in your head,... Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread-- Your fingers thus extend; The attitude's considered quaint,'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Does it stick in our minds as a touchstone Of learning and la politesse?... For while the old place hadn't much tone, Two others we know have got less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »