“I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.” MomentsSpeakLanguageTongue Book:Old snow just melting: essays and interviews Source: Old snow just melting: essays and interviews
“Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.” MomentsCharacterActionDarknessFireTongueImpulseFlamesSteadyHeroismEpicRocketsInsultingRushingLuminousTransientRadianceEpigramsSparklingDarts Author:Edwin Percy Whipple