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Too often, though, in our efforts to understand and discuss it with others, we hold poetry at arms length, concentrating on it as a cultural specimen or a puzzle to be solved:
“Americans ignore history”
― Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
― Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.”
― The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
― The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
― The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
― The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
“God is indeed a jealous God He cannot bear to see That we had rather not with Him But with each other play. Emily Dickinson, c.1864”
― The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
― The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
“The whole life-energy of the greatest nations had been poured out in wrath and slaughter.”
― The Gathering Storm, 1948
― The Gathering Storm, 1948
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