Hart Crane Quotes
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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I'm not designed to interact with society.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
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The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.
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There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.
