Lincoln Memorial Quotes

“I stared in awe at the Lincoln Memorial. If Honest Abe had come to life and somehow managed to lift his bony twenty-three-foot, four-inch frame from his throne, what would he say? What would he do? Would he break-dance? Would he pitch pennies against the curbside? Would he read the paper and see that the Union he saved was now a dysfunctional plutocracy, that the people he freed were now slaves to rhythm, rap, and predatory lending, and that today his skill set would be better suited to the basketball court than the White House?”
― Paul Beatty

“City of memorials Mute
white façades

granite, pantomiming
loss

After the bomb, they'll all
vanish. Gone

Lincoln's
marble hands

that drape

colossal armrests. Missing
chiseled wave of hair

laid across

his forehead
We

cannot hallow

this ground
the new
absence

might, like Lincoln
say

Or, perhaps

Begin

again”
― Ailish Hopper, Dark~Sky Society