“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5
“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.”
Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 895, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
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