The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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America – It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms.
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me – and I think for all of us – not only our own hope, but America’s everlasting, living dream.
These states are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations, Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars… Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America – that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Fecund America–today, Thou art all over set in births and joys! Thou groan’st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment, Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions, A myriad-twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesne, As some huge ship freighted to water’s edge thou ridest into port, As rain […]
So, then, to every man his chance – to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity – to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him – this, seeker, is the promise of America.
Whilst I was in America, a witness, who happened to be called at the assizes of the county of Chester (State of New York), declared that he did not believe in the existence of God, or in the immortality of the soul. The judge refused to admit his evidence, on the ground that the witness […]
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
