The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. W...e cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen:... A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The others "acted" a role; I was the role. She who was Mary Garden died that it might live. That was my genius ... and my sacrific...e. It drained off so much of me that by comparison my private life was empty. I could not give myself completely twice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth,--... One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »