Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry, Under the conceiving moon, on the high chalk hill,... And there this night I walk in the white giant's thigh Where barrren as boulders women lie longing still To labour and love though they lay down long ago.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Spacious Firmament on high, With all the blue Ethereal Sky,... And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame, Their great Original proclaim: Th' unwearied Sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's Pow'r display, And publishes to every Land The Work of an Almighty Hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted b...y audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator's lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray... my trust as High Priest of Karnak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass,... And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ...... And while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In pursuit of an educational program to suit the bright and the not so bright, we have watered down a rigid training for the elite... until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses.... We must evolve an adjustable curriculum which does not sacrifice the superior student to the drones at a period in our history when we need highly trained people in ever increasing numbers to solve the vast and complex problems which destiny has placed upon our shoulders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor aught availed him now To have built in heav'n high tow'rs; nor did he scape... By all his engines, but was headlong sent With his industrious crew to build in hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secre...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »