"I see little more important to the..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
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“Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”
“The mere absence of war is not peace.”
“The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.”
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“A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.”
“I want it to sound like an orange.”
“For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.”
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“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours,Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,as the leopard; and yet we are so early weanedfrom her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusivelyan interaction of man on man.”
“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.”
“If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.”