Carl Oglesby Quotes

Carl Preston Oglesby was an American writer, academic, and political activist. He was the President of the leftist student organization Students for a Democratic Society from 1965 to 1966.



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✵ 30. July 1935 – 13. September 2011
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Famous Carl Oglesby Quotes

“Culture, ... that standard shield of class, is allowed to surface only in order to become more evidence of ... vanity.”

Carl Oglesby

"The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction" (1972)

“When the house is burning down around the poet's head, on grounds of what if any dispensation can the poet continue the poem?”

Carl Oglesby

"The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction" (1972)

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