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Haniel Long was an American poet, born on March 9, 1888, and died on October 17, 1956. He is known for his unique poetic style and profound insights into American culture.

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“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”

Love Family Loyalty Stability

Author:Haniel Long

“In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.”

Humans Dream Body Natural Secret Taken Objects Youth Sensual Human Body Delighted

Author:Haniel Long

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”

Family Remains Bounds Loyalty Stability Our Love Criminal Mind Family Love Pact Best Criminal Minds Used In Criminal Minds

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.”

People Should Doe Night Stars Dark Excited Arguing Pity Dark Night

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.”

Moments Watches Strange Drama Meetings Stranger This Life Friendly

Author:Haniel Long

“To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.”

Men States Humanity Loyalty Monsters Worms

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.”

Ifs Knows World Use Desire Energy United Common Members Packs Gang Gang Members Wolf Packs

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.”

People Feels Self States Enjoy Church Path Milieu

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.”

Way Believe Found Dying Ought New Ways New Life

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.”

Persons Humanity Belonging Loyal Clue

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.”

Humans May Spirit Social Natural Existence Conditions Pages Structure Desert Frightening Human Spirit Incentives Social Structure Kindliness

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.”

Men Should Sometimes Speak Voice Lord Listeners Theologian Our Lord Speaks Out Layman

Author:Haniel Long

“Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'”

People Vision Valleys Dusk

Author:Haniel Long

“Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.”

Needs Care Understanding Community Taken Society Take Care Neighborhood Kwanzaa

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.”

Life Is Individual Causes Ignorance Accounts Apathy Unfortunate

Author:Haniel Long

“For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?”

Ifs Men Trying Heart Mother Fall Girl Support Baby Praying My Heart Faults Something Better Fall Back Baby Girl

Book:If he can make her so

Source: If he can make her so

“All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.”

World Way Humans Stories Today Spiritual Existence Alive Poet Details Human Life Engaged Brotherhood Live For Today

Author:Haniel Long

“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”

Kingdoms Starvation

Author:Haniel Long

“Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.”

Men Age Interest Loses Great Men

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.”

Men May Important Moments Action Sun Listening Important Things Motive Daily Life Pitchforks Small Actions

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

About the Author

Born: March 9, 1888
Died: October 17, 1956
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 20

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