. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes
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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. Go to Quote / Comment
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. Go to Quote / Comment
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. Go to Quote / Comment
And crossed the dark defile at last, and found At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain... Go to Quote / Comment
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness. Go to Quote / Comment