"Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested ... liberate the imagination."

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“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”

“I have been influenced by the Bible, Bach's music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins.”

“Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence.”

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“For me, a poem starts when a felicitious phrase springs to mind.”

Resonant Thoughts

"You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by th…"

— Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy1895–1983

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"I've watched and read the public reaction to the slaughter of nine people, nine African American people by a white supremacist gunman who warrants the description of a terrorist. As I read that commen…"

— Brooks D. Simpson

Politics1957

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"When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?"

— Cassandra Clare

Literature1973

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"I sincerely wish that every member of Congress could visit the displaced person's camp in Germany and Austria and see just what is happening to 500,000 human beings through no fault of their own."

— Harry S. Truman

Politics1884–1972

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