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The Prevail Project - http://goo.gl/Qmzx7 - I decline to accept the end of man.It is easy enough to say that man is immortalsimply because he will endure: that whenthe last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded fromthe last worthless rock hanging tideless inthe last red and dying evening, that even thenthere will still be one more sound:that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.I refuse to accept this.I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.He is immortal, not because he alone among creatureshas an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul,a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things.It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart,by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and prideand compassion and pity and sacrifice which have beenthe glory of his past.The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be oneof the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.– William FaulknerNobel Prize acceptance spee