Kenneth Rand quotes

“Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.”
-- Kenneth Rand

Source : Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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“Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!”
-- Kenneth Rand

Source : Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”

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“Love is a jeering mime.”
-- Kenneth Rand

Source : 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.”
-- Kenneth Rand

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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 Rand

Source : 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 Rand

Source : 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.”
-- Kenneth Rand

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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.”
-- Kenneth Rand

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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

“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

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.”

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

“Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.”

Source : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.67, Lulu.com

“There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)”

“Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”

“It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism”

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Source : Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.