"Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly."

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Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media

Amy Lowell

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“Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.”
“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
“Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.”
“That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.”
“The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.”
“There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.”
“I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home school, but you teach yourself instead of your parents teaching you. I found that to be one of the most important things in my life is that I learned how to teach myself things. I feel like that's something that schools should actually teach.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“It's part of the strategy to remind people who Hillary Rodham Clinton actually is. If others aren't going to hold her account for her full record, then, yes, we will. And her record includes naming and blaming women who came in contact with her husband, whether it was consensual relationships like Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the White House with him as President, completely debasing the office of the White House - the office of The Presidency - or Jennifer Flowers, 12-year affair while he was Governor of Arkansas.”

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