An abyss seems to have opened ...

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
 Meridel Le Sueur

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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They never die, who have the future in them.
 Meridel Le Sueur
Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.
 Meridel Le Sueur
The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.
 Meridel Le Sueur