She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world bui...lt up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as... is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But all its chief delight was still On Roses thus its self to fill:... And its pure virgin Limbs to fold In whitest sheets of Lillies cold. Had it liv'd long it would have been Lillies without, Roses within.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A shepherdess of sheep.... Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water when ...we need to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »