PoemFootfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.T.S. EliotBurnt Norton · 1936★ 6.9
Poem · Political literatureWho built the Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?... Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished Did the masons go?Bertolt BrechtQuestions from a Worker Who Reads · 1936★ 6.8
Novel · Southern gothicYou can't understand it. You would have to be born there.William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! · 1936★ 6.3
PoemO, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free.Langston Hughes1936★ 5.5
Speech · Political speechThey are unanimous in their hatred for me-and I welcome their hatred.Franklin D. Roosevelt1936★ 5.5
Speech · Political speechThe true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.Franklin D. Roosevelt1936★ 5.3
NovelWhat most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.Margaret MitchellGone with the Wind · 1936★ 4.5
PoemWords strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.T.S. EliotBurnt Norton · 1936★ 4.5
Speech · Political speechThere is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.Franklin D. Roosevelt1936★ 4.5
Speech · Political speechOutside the Kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other…God and history will remember your judgment.Haile Selassie I1936★ 4.5
Essay · Political literatureWhen the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.George OrwellShooting an Elephant · 1936★ 3.9
Academic journal · Scientific literatureThe eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.Albert Einstein1936★ 3.8
Academic journal · Scientific literatureThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day thinking.Albert Einstein1936★ 3.8
Essay · MagazineThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald1936★ 3.6
NovelLand is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for.Margaret MitchellGone with the Wind · 1936★ 3.6
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