Vachel Lindsay Quotes

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

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Vachel Lindsay

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (; November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.

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Vachel Lindsay

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

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Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black,<br/>Cutting through the forest with a golden track.

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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name

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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: -- / To speak of bloody power as right divine,/ And call on God to guard each vile chief's house,/ And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

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Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.

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We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. From 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree

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

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