"I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it the unique condition in which intelligence, dignity, and human happiness may develop and grow; not the purely formal liberty conceded, measured out, and regulated by the state, an eternal lie which in reality represents nothing more than the privilege of some founded on the slavery of the rest; not the individualistic, egotistic, shabby and fictitious liberty extolled by the school of J.J. Rousseau and the other schools of bourgeois liberalism, which gives us the would-be rights of all men as embodied in a State that limits the rights of each -- an idea which leads inevitably to the reduction Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE SALE OF MY FARM by ROBERT FROST FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by EMMA LAZARUS THE MARRIAGE (1) by TIMOTHY LIU THE STARLING; SONNET by AMY LOWELL BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OSCAR HUMMEL by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: REV. LEMUEL WILEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |