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Kenneth Rexroth : It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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George Eliot : " To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Joan of Arc : " Take heart and come on! I will not fly away. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Ben Jonson : " Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : " I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Jane Austen : " Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Kenneth Rexroth : " It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Mark Twain : " It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Henry David Thoreau : " Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Benjamin Disraeli : " Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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H L Mencken : " As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge : " What comes from the heart goes to the heart. " # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Kenneth Rexroth: " The contemporary world is being pulled apart by two contrary tendencies — one toward social death, one toward the birth of a new society. Many of the phenomena of the present crisis are ambivalent and can either mean death or birth depending on how the crisis is resolved. The crisis of a civilization is a mass phenomenon and moves onward without benefit of ideology. The demand for freedom, community, life significance, the attack on alienation, is largely inchoate and instinctive. In the libertarian revolutionary movement these objectives were ideological, confined to books, or realized with difficulty, usually only temporarily in small experimental communities, or in individual lives and tiny social circles. It has been said of the contemporary revolutionary wave that it is a revolution without theory, anti-ideological. But the theory, the ideology, already exists in a tradition as old as capitalism itself. Furthermore, just as individuals specially gifted have been able to live free lives in the interstices of an exploitative, competitive system, so in periods when the developing capitalist system has temporarily and locally broken down due to the drag of outworn forms there have existed brief revolutionary honeymoons in which freer communal organization has prevailed. Whenever the power structure falters or fails the general tendency is to replace it with free communism. This is almost a law of revolution. In every instance so far, either the old power structure, as in the Paris Commune or the Spanish Civil War, or a new one, as in the French and Bolshevik Revolutions, has suppressed these free revolutionary societies with wholesale terror and bloodshed." # Politicians and Politics # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Books - Reading

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Kenneth Rexroth: " Any writer, reading over the typescript of a book for the last time before sending it off to the publisher, must wonder what all the effort was for. An autobiography is specially in need of justification to its author. It is a work of self-justification which itself needs justifying. Why have I written this book? Why have I written it the way I have? What does it mean to me? What do I hope it will mean to others? Each human being has at the final core of self a crystal from which the whole manifold of the personality develops, a secret molecular lattice which governs the unfolding of all the structures of the individuality, in time, in space, in memory, in action and contemplation. Asleep there were just these dreams and no others. Awake there were these actions only. Only these deeds came into being." # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Action

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Kenneth Rexroth: " When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too." # Youth # Newspapers # Writers and Writing

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Kenneth Rexroth: " I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. My poems are acts of force and violence directed against the evil which murders us all. If you like, they are designed not just to overthrow the present State, economic system, and Church, but all prevailing systems of human collectivity altogether... I wish to speak to and for all those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption." # Medicine # Churches # Writers and Writing

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Kenneth Rexroth: " People who believe in libertarian communism can be grouped roughly under three general theories, each with its old masters, theoreticians, leaders, organizations, and literature. First there are the anarchists in a rather limited variety: communist-anarchists, mutualists, anarcho-syndicalists, individual anarchists, and a few minor groups and combinations. Second, the members of intentional communities, usually but by no means always religious in inspiration. The words “communalism” and “communalist” seem to have died out and it would be good to appropriate them to this group, although the by now too confusing word “communist” actually fits them best of all. Third, there are the Left Marxists, who prior to 1918 had become a widespread movement challenging the Social Democratic Second International. It was to them the Bolsheviks appealed for support in the early days of their revolution. Lenin’s The State and Revolution is an authoritarian parody of their ideas. They in turn have called it “the greatest pre-election pamphlet ever written: ‘Elect us and we will wither away’.” Against them Lenin wrote Leftism: An Infantile Disorder. There is a story that, when the Communist International was formed, a delegate objected to the name. Referring to all these groups he said: “But there are already communists.” Lenin answered: “Nobody ever heard of them, and when we get through with them nobody ever will.” Today these ideas are more influential than they ever have been." # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Leaders and Leadership # Communism and Socialism

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Kenneth Rexroth: " As concentration and depersonalization increase in the dominant society, as the concentration of capital increases with the takeover of ever larger businesses by conglomerates and international corporations, as more and more local initiative is abandoned to the rule of the central State, and as computerization and automation narrow the role of human initiative in both labor and administration, life becomes ever more unreal, aimless, and empty of meaning for all but a tiny elite who still cling to the illusion they possess initiative. Action and reaction — thesis and antithesis — this state of affairs produces its opposite. All over the world we are witnessing an instinctive revolt against dehumanization." # Education # Business # Capitalism

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Kenneth Rexroth: " It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence." # Perseverance # Poetry and Poets # Speech

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Kenneth Rexroth: " It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not." # Music # Poetry and Poets # Commonplace

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Kenneth Rexroth: " Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy." # Happiness # Marriage # Life and Living

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Kenneth Rexroth: " The characteristic paranoias of youth — the attribution of intention and duplicity to almost all human behavior. The young suffer terribly from the belief that the people they encounter are most of them up to something and that something has some relation to themselves. Actually, of course, most people just bobble along like apples in a stream. Usually it takes many years of experience to realize this." # Twentieth Century # Belief # Love

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