"If more politicians knew poetry, and more..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.”
“Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.”
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“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”
“We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.”
“Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.”
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“All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.”
“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”
“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.”