Some years later, after Scott’s death, we came my father and I to the Field Museum, a long dismal peristyle dwindling away into the howling distance, and inside stood before a tableau of Stone Age Man, father mother and child crouched around an artificial ember in postures of minatory quiet—until, feeling my father’s eye on me, I turned and saw what he required of me—very special father and son we were that summer, he staking his everything this time on a perfect comradeship—and I, seeing in his eyes the terrible request, requiring from me his very life; I, through a child’s cool perversity or some atavistic recoil from an intimacy too intimate, turned him down, turned away, refused him what I knew I could not give.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should b... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as sca... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; The... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no pr... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have h... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect.... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is no real wealth but the labor of man. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th... ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light s... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something af... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb
When butterflies dream of the life to come. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I ... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pai... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling
With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiar acts are beautiful through love. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY