. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes
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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
Ambassador Puser the ambassador Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,... Go to Quote / Comment
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. Go to Quote / Comment
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it. Go to Quote / Comment