Vachel Lindsay

“Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly, Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap, Not that they serve, but…

— Vachel Lindsay

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.

— Vachel Lindsay

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end,…

— Vachel Lindsay

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to…

— Vachel Lindsay

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

— Vachel Lindsay

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

— Vachel Lindsay

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

— Vachel Lindsay

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments…

— Vachel Lindsay

Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Mumbo . . . Jumbo . . . will . . . hoo-doo . . . you.

— Vachel Lindsay

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

— Vachel Lindsay

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

— Vachel Lindsay

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say…

— Vachel Lindsay

Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild…

— Vachel Lindsay

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

— Vachel Lindsay

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.

— Vachel Lindsay

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

— Vachel Lindsay

“They tried to get me—I got them first!”

— Vachel Lindsay

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

— Vachel Lindsay

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

— Vachel Lindsay

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

— Vachel Lindsay

“We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger…

— Vachel Lindsay

The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe…

— Vachel Lindsay

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see…

— Vachel Lindsay

“Factory windows are always broken Other windows are let alone. No one throws through the chapel-window The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.”

— Vachel Lindsay

Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone.

— Vachel Lindsay