Quote #10

'Broken things are powerful.' Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

More from Eugene McCarthy

  1. The glove has been thrown to the ground, The last choice of weapons made. A book for one thought. A poem for one line. A line for one word.
  2. I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.
  3. Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.
  4. The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come.
  5. As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognitio…
  6. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
  7. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's importa…
  8. We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

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