Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
Only the rich are lonesome.
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.
We wear the mask that grins and lies.
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.