Forced labor as a punishment is limited as to time and intensity. The convict retains his rights over his body; he is not absolute...ly tortured and he is not absolutely dominated. Banishment banishes only from one part of the world to another part of the world, also inhabited by human beings; it does not exclude from the human world altogether. Throughout history slavery has been an institution within a social order; slaves were not, like concentration-camp inmates, withdrawn from the sight and hence the protection of their fellow-men; as instruments of labor they had a definite price and as property a definite value. The concentration-camp inmate has no price, because he can always be replaced; nobody knows to whom he belongs, because he is never seen. From the point of view of normal society he is absolutely superfluous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in "the social" our historic passio...ns have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial cosiness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As night is withdrawn From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May,... Dream, while the innumerable choir of day Welcome the dawn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus change the forms of being. Thus arise Races of living things, glorious in strength,... And perish, as the quickening breath of God Fills them, or is withdrawn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For me being a poet is a job rather than an activity. I feel I have a function in society, neither more nor less meaningful than a...ny other simple job. I feel it is part of my work to make poetry more accessible to people who have had their rights withdrawn from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exhaust them, wrestle with them, let them not go until their blessing be won, and, after a short season, the dismay will be overpa...st, the excess of influence withdrawn, and they will be no longer an alarming meteor, but one more brighter star shining serenely in your heaven, and blending its light with all your day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence, and has increased our respect for the resources... of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal; when he has, moreover, become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom,--it is a sign to us that his office is closing, and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;... There are souls like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;... Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green; One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »