Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from ro... by Vachel Lindsay

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even... by Vachel Lindsay

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

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Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you... by Vachel Lindsay

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

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They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.] by Vachel Lindsay

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

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Life is a loom, weaving illusion. by Vachel Lindsay

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush the... by Vachel Lindsay

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

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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?

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The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself... by Vachel Lindsay

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

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They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) by Vachel Lindsay

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

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My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkin... by Vachel Lindsay

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

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The crooning turns to a sunrise singing. by Vachel Lindsay

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.

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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.

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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. by Vachel Lindsay

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

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Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo . . . Jumbo . . . will . . . hoo-doo . . . you.

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

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God lead us past the setting of the sun by Vachel Lindsay

God lead us past the setting of the sun

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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.

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Except the Christ be born again tonight by Vachel Lindsay

Except the Christ be born again tonight

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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.

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Let not young souls be smothered out by Vachel Lindsay

Let not young souls be smothered out

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The sun is a huntress young, by Vachel Lindsay

The sun is a huntress young,

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