Vachel Lindsay Professions : PoetBorn : November 10, 1879Died : December 5, 1931 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Vachel Lindsay Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. Vachel Lindsay devilcynicismhelping Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. Vachel Lindsay visionsoulchange They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.] Vachel Lindsay suicidalsuicidefirsts Life is a loom, weaving illusion. Vachel Lindsay philosophyhistoryart You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Vachel Lindsay suppressingcrushideas How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled? Vachel Lindsay learningtragedycommitment The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts. Vachel Lindsay heartwritingmen Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. Vachel Lindsay routinecriminalspeople They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) Vachel Lindsay suicidalsuicidefirsts My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness. Vachel Lindsay compassionkindnessjustice The crooning turns to a sunrise singing. Vachel Lindsay sunriseturnssinging I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. Vachel Lindsay challengesdeaththinking To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. Vachel Lindsay mankindidentitynames Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo . . . Jumbo . . . will . . . hoo-doo . . . you. Vachel Lindsay Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone. Vachel Lindsay bitterstoneswindow God lead us past the setting of the sun Vachel Lindsay wisdomwisepast 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. Vachel Lindsay ghosthousemen Except the Christ be born again tonight Vachel Lindsay christmasdreamson Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old. Vachel Lindsay kansasyellowhands Let not young souls be smothered out Vachel Lindsay pridedeedssoul Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
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