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America was promises...
It was Man who had been promised.
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If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God.
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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
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A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
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Poets, you see, are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
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We have learned the answers, all the answers:
It is the question that we do not know.
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Old age level light
evening in the afternoon
love without the bitterness and so
good-night
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And here face downward in the sun To feel how swift how secretly The shadow of the night comes on.
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America is promises to
Take!
America is promises to
To take them
Brutally
With love but
Take them.
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
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Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
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There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
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Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
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What is more important in a library than anything else—than everything else—is the fact that it exists.
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Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.
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Spacetime has no beginning and no end. It has no door where anything can enter. How break and enter what will only bend?
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The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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There with vast wings across the canceled skies, There in the sudden blackness the black pall Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.
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We were the first that found that famous country: We marched by a king's name: we crossed the sierras: Unknown hardships we suffered: hunger.
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A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard–by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.
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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.
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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
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For the existence of a library, the fact of its existence, is, in itself and of itself, an assertion—a proposition nailed like Luther's to the door of time.
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
May 7, 1892
Died:
April 20, 1982
(aged 89)
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