. 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
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers. Go to Quote / Comment
We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. Go to Quote / Comment
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year Go to Quote / Comment
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading. Go to Quote / Comment