I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
...
This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
...
you've seen a strawberry
that's had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,
...
My father used to say,
"Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow's grave
nor the glass flowers at Harvard.
...
not of silver nor of coral,
but of weatherbeaten laurel.
Here, he introduced a sea
...
Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary -
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -
born of the sea supposedly,
at Christmas each, in company,
...
Man looking into the sea,
taking the view from those who have as much right to it as
you have to it yourself,
it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
...
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting
and baseball is like writing.
You can never tell with either
how it will go
...
"No water so still as the
dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,
with swart blind look askance
and gondoliering legs, so fine
...
The illustration
is nothing to you without the application.
You lack half wit. You crush all the particles down
into close conformity, and then walk back and forth on them.
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