3 Quotes & Sayings By Parke Godwin

Parke Godwin was born in 1936. He worked as a reporter for the "People's World," before becoming an editor at "The New Leader," and later became a columnist at "The Nation." He has been a professor at Columbia University and Harvard, and was the founding editor of "The New Leader" and "The Nation." He has written ten books, including the award-winning The Exploiter: A Novel. Godwin is also known for his work on civil rights and for co-founding the Democratic Socialists of America.

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The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. Parke Godwin
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..hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another as with pegs, its dependent clauses, figures of speech and cadenced alliteration, a man can say one thing five ways and yet imply a sixth; can change meaning with an inflection, a pause or a deliberate misuse of a word, can mock, scorn and flay an opponent without uttering one overt insult. Parke Godwin