34 Quotes by Vachel Lindsay

There are many earthly languages. There are many heavenly languages. There are many blazing, blinding tomorrows. But they all lead to the same glorious tomorrow at last.

Except the Christ be born again tonightIn dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,The world will never see his kingdom bright.

They tried to get me—I got them first!

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: -- / To speak of bloody power as right divine,/ And call on God to guard each vile chief's house,/ And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.