In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
