Dewitt Clinton Elementary

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    I taught myself to name my name,
    To bark back, loosen love and crying;
    To ease my woman so she came,
    To ease an old man who was dying.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go “ugh.” I wouldn’t like her either. It’s so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.
    —Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947)

    As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)