Vachel Lindsay quotes

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. (Vachel Lindsay)
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. View quote
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. View quote
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Life is a loom, weaving illusion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. View quote
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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. View quote
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Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. View quote
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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. View quote
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The crooning turns to a sunrise singing. View quote
Vachel Lindsay

Vachel Lindsay

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: November 10, 1879
Died: December 5, 1931
Quotes count: 10

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