. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes
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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. 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
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. 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
And crossed the dark defile at last, and found At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain... Go to Quote / Comment