
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 165
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”
“The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.”
Book II, Ch. 1, p. 24
Selected Messages (1958 - 1980)
“Here is the bread of time to come,
Here is its actual stone.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Here is the bread of time to come,
Here is its actual stone. The bread
Will be our bread, the stone will be
Our bed and we shall sleep by night.
We shall forget by day, except
The moments when we choose to play
The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”
Daily Telegram number 2768, Mr. Rogers Puts Us Down As A Nation of Fleas (19 June 1935)
Daily telegrams