"We near the realization of that supreme social concept, our whole view of life and, consequently, of art, will be correspondingly modified. We shall come to insist more and more upon experts in all things. Respect for standards, love of order, will return. The petty personalism, that has long dominated us, will die away. Our poets will achieve the objective view of the world of men and things—and it is out of that view that all great art, as all great life, must grow."
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Nebraska Laureate Address of 1921 (June 18th, 1921)
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John Neihardt
John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881–November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer.
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