. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes
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And crossed the dark defile at last, and found At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain... Go to Quote / Comment
Nor now the long light on the sea— And here face downward in the sun... Go to Quote / Comment
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. Go to Quote / Comment
I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women: I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.... 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