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Quote by Edwin Markham

“In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.”

Author

Edwin Markham was an American poet renowned for his profound and evocative poetry. Born on April 23, 1852, in Pomfret, Connecticut, and passing away on March 7, 1940, Markham's work frequently tackled themes of nature, human struggle, and social justice. His most celebrated poem, 'The Man with the Hoe,' is a moving portrayal of the hardships faced by the working class. more

“All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Faces Joy Sides Hours Clear Blood Childhood Pure Bottom Lifts Your Children Just One Intoxication Lift You Up

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition.”

People Way Helping Grows Easy Difficult Sides Clear Alive Cost Solutions Opposition Conventions

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.”

Littles Art Criticism Works Of Art

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer”

Answers

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

“When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.”

Critics Ridiculous Borders Sublime

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

“A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.”

Nations Understanding Race Honest Relation Lasting Armament

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.”

World Way Lost Nations Ready Strive Witness Resolve Rebirth Good Faith Lost Hope

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.”

People Ifs Persons Humility Modesty Modest