O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and … - Conrad Aiken

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The law for religious freedom. . . [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

Conrad Aiken

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

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Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.

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I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

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Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.

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