Learning The Truth famous quotes

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

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.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and the Gettysburg Address and much more, but not Lincoln's Second Inauguration, I challenged that omission and they said find something on it and to my astonishment, at that time, there was no book or long article that really did it. So I wrote one that attempted to do it justice. Although obscurely published, that essay got a nice bounce. Somehow David Donald saw it, and in his notes to his biography singled it out.

I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Just keep taking care of my body and all of that. Take care of your body, stay healthy. You'll be alright.