Kenneth Rand quotes
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“Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.”
-- Kenneth RandSource : Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
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“Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!”
-- Kenneth RandSource : Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”
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“Love is a jeering mime.”
-- Kenneth RandSource : Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
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“And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.”
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“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”
-- Kenneth RandSource : Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”
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“Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.”
-- Kenneth RandSource : Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
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“Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.”
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“God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
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“Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.”
Source : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.67, Lulu.com
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“It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism”
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Source : Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.