No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Significance is sweet.
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.
I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States. " She introduced me to the term "John Henryism. " And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early '80s.