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He was a four time recipient of Pulitzer Prize, and was widely referred as an esteemed poet. [2] Kennedy had asked Frost to read "The Gift Outright" and Frost had agreed, but upon viewing the arrangements for the inauguration, spent the evening before the ceremony composing this new poem as preamble to the requested poem. [3]
The phrase is commonly attributed to John F. Kennedy, [1] who used it in an October 1963 speech to combat criticisms that a dam project in Arkansas that he was inaugurating was a pork barrel project. [2] [3] These projects produce wealth, they bring industry, they bring jobs, and the wealth they bring brings wealth to other sections of the ...
Marie Noël, born Marie-Mélanie Rouget (Auxerre, 16 February 1883 – 23 December 1967) was a French poet, a devout Catholic laywoman and officer of the Légion d'honneur. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was affectionately called "the Warbler of Auxerre".
— Olena Teliha, Ukrainian poet and activist (21 February 1942); inscription written on the wall of her prison cell prior to her execution by the Gestapo "I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labour meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on Earth."
In the Clearing is a 1962 poetry collection by Robert Frost. It contains the poem "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration", much of which Frost had composed to be read at President Kennedy's inauguration but could not. The book is also known for "Kitty Hawk", the book's longest poem, which muses on the Wright Brothers' accomplishment in manned ...
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was seated beside his smartly dressed wife, who was wearing a pink Chanel-like suit and matching pillbox hat and holding an armful of red roses that ...
Durand's inspiration for the poem was a marabou woman named Marie Noel Belizaire—nicknamed Choucoune—who ran a restaurant in Cap-Haïtien. She met Durand, and the two had a romantic liaison. In the poem, Choucoune deserts the poet for a Frenchman's favors. Reportedly the real Choucoune and Durand parted because of the poet's serial ...
John Lewis quotes on social justice “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” —John Lewis from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020