I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word ‘damn’ about them?
Category Archive: 1908
But maybe it’s up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it’s never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
I’ve got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.