I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. "
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
You have to foul me to stop me, period.
Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.
Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
Foul whisperings are abroad
Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.
So fair and foul a day i had not seen.
I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won’t sully her to further your high ideas.
Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
