Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.
Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.
Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
I always believed in being myself.