. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. Go to Quote / Comment
Nor now the long light on the sea— And here face downward in the sun... 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
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