"Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry."

-- Stephen Spender

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“Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.”
“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”
“One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience”
“It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.”
“Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.”
“It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.185, U of Nebraska Press
“Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.”
“The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.”

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