If I read The Sound and the Fury or Middlemarch, I'm filled with the aromas of either book, with past readings and relationships t...o the characters, with a whole continent of language and scenes, but the books don't frighten me. I can enter into their dream songs, and leave at my own will. But if I'm watching Casablanca on the wall, I'll let my eye slip past the phony details, the studio-bound streets, the laughable sense of a fabricated city, and drift into that dream of Humphrey Bogart and Rick's Cafe Americain, which exists outside any laws of physics, like the eternal dream of Hollywood itself, a little dopey, but with a power we can't resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out,... And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line... And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the ...only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies,... I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower--but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; when his lamp shone over my head, and by his lig...ht I walked through darkness; when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent; when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me; when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »