Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at their house, 17 Quincy Street, tomorrow afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock...
What did you say? In the dusk, in the cool tombs? . . . I don't think I see what you mean, quite . . . Shall...
...said that my poetry had just one fault. He said that my supreme ability to feel, which he thought was greater than in any other girl's poetry he had ever read, had conquered everything else. Do you see? In the great wave of emotion, which overflows all our psychological dikes into the cistern that we call "poetry", I was slowly but surely drowning myself. "Your surrender is always too complete," he said. "You give too much, always." (No, I like this way better...
...ought to learn what? The poetry of action. The poetry--of action. I don't quite see...
...third movement (Allegro)--in reality a Scherzo of the most fantastic type, though not so marked--might well typify the riddle of the Universe. We indeed 'see through a glass darkly,' and yet there is no note of despair. Amid the sinister mutterings of the basses there ring out, on the horns and trumpets, clarion calls to action. While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate...