Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of univers...al relation and power which the work evinced in the artist, and its highest effect is to make new artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don't tote it. ...He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is demule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you. Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Throw down the ball, ye Jew's daughter, Throw down the ball to me!'... 'Never a bit,' says the Jew's daughter, 'Till up to me come ye.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It were sad to gaze on the blessèd and no man I loved of old there; I throw down the chain of small stones! when life in my ...body has ceased, I will go to Caoilte, and Conan, and Bran, Sceolan, Lomair, And dwell in the house of the Fenians, be they in flames or at feast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God a...nd his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You'd have to be a jew like me to understand. You've heard of the Pale. Every one of us has something fenced up way down in us. We...'ve been in prison for two thousand years. I have the mind of a jailbird, that's why prison can't hurt me. That's why we throw ourselves into every movement of freedom. That's why I feel the slavery of the workers, I feel it as a worker and I feel it as a jew. Oh you can't imagine the overheated stuffiness of life at home on the East Side when I was a kid. We were all jailed in poverty and Judaism and in old customs and hatreds and wornout laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He's got hay down that's been rained on three times. He hoed a little yesterday for me:... I thought the growing things would do him good. Something went wrong. I saw him throw the hoe Sky-high with both hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here come the line-gang pioneering by. They throw a forest down less cut than broken.... They plant dead trees for living, and the dead They string together with a living thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. U...ntil you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it dow...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »