You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
