One Can Be Tired Of Rome After

We Are All Proprietary Toward Cities We Love. 'ah, You Should Have Seen Her When I Loved Her!' We Say, Reciting Glories Since Faded Or Defiled, Trusting Her To No One Else; That Others Should Know And Love Her In Her Present Fallen State (for She Must Fall Without Our Vigilant Love) Is A Species Of Betrayal.

Our Awesome Responsibility To Ourselves, To Our Children, And To The Future Is To Create Ourselves In The Image Of Goodness, Because The Future Depends On The Nobility Of Our Imaginings.

To Have A Crisis, And Act Upon It, Is One Thing. To Dwell In Perpetual Crisis Is Another.

To Surrender One's Vulnerable Body To Water Has Always Seemed To Me A Limpid Act Of Will That Has No Coutnerpart Or Equal, Unless It Is Sex.

Every Generation Reinvents The Wheel - And In The Process It Often Adds To Rather Than Subtracts From A Woman's Burdens.