Famous quotes containing the words walt, world, war and/or era:
“What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman,”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.”
—Theodore Roethke (19081963)
“The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toning down the sensitiveness of the feelings.”
—William James (18421910)
“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
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