In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always read more

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.