People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away... the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An omnibus across the bridge Crawls like a yellow butterfly,... And, here and there, a passer-by Shows like a little restless midge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bright yellow, red, and orange, The leaves come down in hosts;... The trees are Indian princes, But soon they'll turn to ghosts;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know,... The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from the last year's leaves below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I press not to the quire, nor dare I greet The holy place with my unhallowed feet;... My unwashed Muse pollutes not things divine, Nor mingles her profaner notes with thine; Here humbly at the porch she listening stays, And with glad ears sucks in thy sacred lays.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flee from the press and dwell with soothfastness; Suffice unto thy good though it be small,... For hoard hath hate and climbing ticklishness, Press hath envy and weal blent overall;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of ...the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »