Top 29 Vachel Quotes
#1. It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
Donald Hall
#2. People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.
Billy Graham
#3. Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
Vachel Lindsay
#4. They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)
Vachel Lindsay
#5. To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Vachel Lindsay
#6. Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.
Vachel Lindsay
#7. 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
#9. Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo ... Jumbo ... will ... hoo-doo ... you.
Vachel Lindsay
#10. 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
#12. 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.
Vachel Lindsay
#13. You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Vachel Lindsay
#14. Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
Timothy Keller
#15. So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social.
Jean Baudrillard
#16. Let not young souls be smothered out
Before they do quaint deeds
And fully flaunt their pride.
Vachel Lindsay
#17. 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.
Vachel Lindsay
#18. 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.
Vachel Lindsay
#19. Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Vachel Lindsay
#20. Factory windows are always broken
Other windows are let alone.
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
Vachel Lindsay
#21. We left you there, lonely,
Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree
Vachel Lindsay
#22. Living in an age of casual sex, serial commitments, and frequent divorce, we are all in danger of becoming as jaded as anceien regime aristocrats. Does the notion of undying love still have any meaning for us today?
Marilyn Yalom
#23. 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
#24. God lead us past the setting of the sun
To wizard islands, of august surprise;
God make our blunders wise.
Vachel Lindsay
#25. 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
#26. The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.
Vachel Lindsay
#27. Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
William L. Jenkins
#29. My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
Vachel Lindsay
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