Top 23 Vachel Lindsay Quotes

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

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#2. They tried to get me - I got them first!

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

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#4. 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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#5. God lead us past the setting of the sun
To wizard islands, of august surprise;
God make our blunders wise.

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#6. 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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#7. We left you there, lonely,
Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree

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#8. Factory windows are always broken
Other windows are let alone.
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

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

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#10. Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.

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#11. Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

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#12. Let not young souls be smothered out
Before they do quaint deeds
And fully flaunt their pride.

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

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#14. I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

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#15. Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

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#16. 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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#17. Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo ... Jumbo ... will ... hoo-doo ... you.

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#18. The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.

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

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

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

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

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