Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I ...was safe and secure. And then you had to come along and knock it all down and I hate you for that. Maxwell: On the contrary, you love me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No two moments are any more alike than two snowflakes. Like snowflakes, they get that same look from being so plentiful and fallin...g so close together. But examine them closely and see the multiple differences between them. Each moment has its own task and capacity, and doesn't melt down like snow and form again. It keeps its character forever. so the great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night's moment to a day which has no knowledge of it. That look, that tender touch, was issued by the mint of the richest of all kingdoms. That same expression of today is utter counterfeit, or at best the wildest of inflation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their... town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;... Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it's toasted--or staleLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take any noble musical air, and you find, on examining it, that not one even of the faintest or shortest notes can be removed with...out destruction to the whole passage in which it occurs; and that every note in the passage is twenty times more beautiful so introduced, than it would have been if played singly on the instrument. Precisely this degree of arrangement and relation must exist between every touch and line in a great picture. You may consider the whole as a prolonged musical composition: its parts, as separate airs connected in the story; its little bits and fragments of colour and line, as separate passages or bars in melodies; and down to the minutest note of the whole--down to the minutest touch,--if there is one that can be spared--that one is doing mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,) Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother,... Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me, Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you. I mean tenderly by you and all, I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the... coffin--I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She that but little patience knew, From childhood on, had now so much... A grey gull lost its fear and flew Down to her cell and there alit, And there endured her fingers' touch And from her fingers ate its bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »