Vachel Famous Quotes & Sayings
26 Vachel Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.— Vachel Lindsay
Old Euclid drew a circle— Vachel Lindsay
On a sand-beach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and circumference,
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.
Let not young souls be smothered out— Vachel Lindsay
Before they do quaint deeds
And fully flaunt their pride.
The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.— Vachel Lindsay
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
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)— Vachel Lindsay
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.— Vachel Lindsay
Factory windows are always broken— Vachel Lindsay
Other windows are let alone.
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
We left you there, lonely,— Vachel Lindsay
Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree
They tried to get me - I got them first!— Vachel Lindsay
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
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
Except the Christ be born again tonight— Vachel Lindsay
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
Life is a loom, weaving illusion.— Vachel Lindsay
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
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.— Vachel Lindsay
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
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.— Vachel Lindsay
Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly,— Vachel Lindsay
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.
The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.— Vachel Lindsay
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
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.— Vachel Lindsay
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.— Randall Jarrell
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo ... Jumbo ... will ... hoo-doo ... you.— Vachel Lindsay
My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.— Vachel Lindsay
God lead us past the setting of the sun— Vachel Lindsay
To wizard islands, of august surprise;
God make our blunders wise.
