"Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright."

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Source : Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

Vachel Lindsay

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“I've always despised the hippies.”
“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”
“There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.”
“The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.”
“Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.”
“We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.”
“... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.”
“God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.”

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