A poem should not mean but be..

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse..

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing..

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at ….

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man..

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the….

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, ….

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritari….

A world ends when its metaphor has died..

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know..

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world..

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never shoul….

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive..

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation..

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch….

. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human comprehension of the world we have ….

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists..

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery..

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority..

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Su….

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves..