To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. – Lawrence Clark Powell
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor. – John Bates Clark
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay
Im not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every words meaning, or multiple meanings. – Anne Stevenson
