Quote #11
I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.
More from Eugene McCarthy
- 'Broken things are powerful.' Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
- 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.
- As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognitio…
- Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.
- 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…
- The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come.
- In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelavent or get involved and get corrupted.
- I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.