The Tragi-Comedy, which is the Product of the English Theatre, is one of the most monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Po...et's Thoughts. An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly [sic] Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you hear the wind? It's not dying, It's singing, weaving a song about the president saluting the trust,... The past in each of us....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t...o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning... her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the small circle of pain within the skull You still shall tramp and tread one endless round... Of thought, to justify your action to yourselves, Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave, Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe Which never is belief: this is your fate on earth And we must think no further of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some d...egree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving:... O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weaving spiders, come not here; Hence, you longlegged spinners, hence!... Beetles black approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.... O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered "men's work" is almost universally given higher status tha...n "women's work." If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »