“hugest whole creation may be less
incalculable than a single kiss”
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73 poems (1963)
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American poet 1894–1962Related quotes
“It was a light, brief kiss, but it was less an ending than a promise, and he was happy.”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 31, “Departures” (p. 429)
“God is a flowing well which constantly may pour
Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Nothing less will content me, than whole America.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
On Seeing Plays (1990).
Context: It is mankind's discovery of language which more than any other single thing has separated him from the animal creation. Without language, what concept have we of past or future as separated from the immediate present? Without language, how can we tell anyone what we feel, or what we think? It might be said that until he developed language, man had no soul, for without language how could he reach deep inside himself and discover the truths that are hidden there, or find out what emotions he shared, or did not share, with his fellow men and women. But because this greatest gift of all gifts is in daily use, and is smeared, and battered and trivialized by commonplace associations, we too often forget the splendour of which it is capable, and the pleasures that it can give, from the pen of a master.
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 210
“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Book I, Ch. 39
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Variant: There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
