A people is defined and unified not by blood but by shared memory.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999
Though you win a Nobel Prize in physics and literature, in a sense it is more important that you keep physics and literature alive, to be passed on to the generations that follow you.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999
They are not powerless, the dead.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999