Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love.” There is in it the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some […]
My Ukrainian Girl
Here you stand before me in my apartment in Kiev in your best red dress and your best pearl earrings and your best bright makeup, presenting yourself to me, giving to me everything of you that you can, wanting so desperately to find a good man, a good husband. You are so radiant, so honest, […]
The Man In The Arena
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who […]