Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping at kisses and toys advancing boldly sudden to take alarm retreating to the corner of arm and knee eager to be reassured taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to...
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a...
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist...
Poetry should help not only to refine the language of the time but to...
As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a...
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper...
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Then when I got in the military I used to host - even in high school - I...
At school there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom...
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal...
In our racist sexist society Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing...
I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an...
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to...
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I...
Every Christmas now for years I have found myself wondering about the point...
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song but at the same time I...