“The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
