To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable ...situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the ...painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say... "I love her for her smile--her look--her way Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
None can re-enter there-- No thief so politic,... No Satan with a royal trick Steal in by window, chink, or hole, To bind or unbind, add what lacked, Insert a leaf, or forge a name, New-face or finish what is packed, Alter or mend eternal fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mi...ghty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eyes, opening and shutting like keyholes and never forgetting, recording by thousands,... the skull with its brains like eels the tablet of the world the bones and their joints that build and break for any trick....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind With whistler's cough contages, time on track... Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick, Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »