Vachel Lindsay Quotes
Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
Lindsay, Vachel. "Factory Windows Are Always Broken." The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, Macmillan, 1917, p. 119.
“Grammar Schools” is the English phrase to denote elite, private elementary schools.
The reference was to temperance agitator, Carry A. Nation, 1846-1911.
He was warning that the corporations and monopolies were taking advantage of the poor who, if there is not some balance of redress and justice will resort to violence such as the man who just short him. He gave the speech still bleeding with the bullet lodged in his body. He refused to go to a hospital or get medical care until he had finished his speech. See {633076}.
During the English Civil War, he wrote official news and propaganda for both sides of the conflict. His writings were well known to our founding fathers and John Adams wrote a treatise attacking Nedham’s writings.
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
