Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7409
AUTHOR:
Herbert Hoover, 31st US President
QUOTATION:
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown’s Body was a step in the right direction. I’ve read it once, and I’m reading it again. But it’s too long to do what I mean. You can’t thrill people in 300 pages.
ATTRIBUTION:
Quoted in Saturday Review Treasury Simon & Schuster 57
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics
