Summer involves going down as a steep flight of steps To a narrow ledge over the water. Is this it, then,... This iron comfort, these reasonable taboos, Or did you mean it when you stopped? And the face Resembles yours, the one reflected in the water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sens...e of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Four or five whippoorwills Have come down from their native ledge... To the open country edge To give us a piece of their bills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun:... his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the combined names of Social Intercourse, Meeting Interesting People, and Getting Out of a Rut, I have taken, in my time, some ...terrible beatings. I have listened to poets rendering their own odes. I have had the plots of yet unwritten plays given me in tiniest detail, I have assisted in charades, I have been politely mystified by card tricks, I have even been sent out of the room and been forced, on my return, to ask the assembled company such questions as I hoped might reveal to me what Famous Character in Fiction they represented. I have spent entire evenings knee-deep in derry-down-derries, listening to quaint old English ballads done without accompaniment; I have been backed into cold corners by pianos while composers showed me how that thing they wrote three years before Gershwin did "The Man I Love" went; I knew a young man who has an inlaid ukelele. You see these gray hairs? Well, making whoopee with the intelligentsia was the way I earned them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a girl's a stewardess, she might as well forget it after twenty-six. They no longer have compulsory retirement, but the girls g...et into a rut at that age. A lot of them start showing the rough life they've lived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing old is no gradual decline, but a series of tumbles, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another. Yet when we pick ourselves ...up we find no bones are broken; while not unpleasing is the new terrace which stretches out unexplored before us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the so...ldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England's hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »