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Vachel Lindsay [1879-1931] American
Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Fantasy, Jazz, Slavery, Song, Vernacular


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.


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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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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.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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