Famous quotes containing the words classic, american and/or love:
“For years, they have all been dying
Out, the classic buck-and-wing men”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
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