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Fenton Johnson

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American poet (1888–1958)

Person · Open Library

Born
1888
Died
1958
Works
12

Top works

  • The daily grind
  • The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
  • Librivox Short Story Collection 092
  • Keeping Faith
  • Geography Of The Heart

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Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

    · 2016 · cited 32,930x

  2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,303x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

  4. Optical Constants of the Noble Metals

    · 1972 · cited 18,253x

  5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

    · 2008 · cited 17,891x

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Quotes

  • "The free man ... believes in destiny and believes that it has need of him," wrote Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher. "Destiny," added Marianne Moore, the spinster poet, when she quoted Buber. "Not fate." What is this distinction Moore takes such care to draw between destiny and fate?
  • Fate suggests submission to the circumstances of life; destiny suggests active engagement. The former implies some all-powerful force or figure to whose will we must submit. The latter implies that each of us is a manifestation of one of the infinite aspects of creation, whose fullest expression depends in some small but necessary way on our day-to-day, moment-to-moment decisions.
  • We are caught — trapped, some might say — in the web of fate, but we are each just as surely among its multitude of spinners. In our spinning lies our hope; in our spinning lies our destiny.
  • Counter to the avalanche of messages from our culture, I recognize celibacy not as negation but as a joyous turning inward. “Inebriate of air am I, / And debauchee of dew,” wrote Emily Dickinson, most promiscuous of celibates. “Opulence in asceticism,” Marianne Moore wrote, a phrase that celebrates the solitary life even as it provides a sound bite for saving the planet.
  • The word "restraint" implies the asking of an essential question, one that is more important now than ever, and is antithetical both to capitalism and to science as we practice them: Because we can do something, must we do it?

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