Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.
It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
This monument is going to be built as a symbol.
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.
Stone Mountain Memorial is the greatest project of its sort ever conceived. It should be finished, because it represent an idea as deep, as basic as the rocks on which our wonderful continent rests.
