No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery

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Topic

Manual labor Work

Author

Booker T. Washington

Source

Up From Slavery

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Civil rights activist Educator Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Washington, Booker T. "Up from Slavery." The Outlook, 1900.

Current Citation

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Dover Publications, 1995.

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic
Connecting with others

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke
Medium
Letter
Language
German
Time
1901 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

Another quote about Work

As I sit looking out of a window of the building
I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal.
I look down into the street and see people, each walking with an inner peace,
And envy them-they are so far away from me!
Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual on schedule.

John Ashbery

The Instruction Manual

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Topic
Observing others Work

Author

John Ashbery
Source
The Instruction Manual
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1956 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Ashbery, John. "The Instruction Manual." Some Trees: Yale Series Of Younger Poets. Yale University Press, 1956, I. 1.