Occupation: Poet Birth: March 9, 1888 Death: October 17, 1956
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be….
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk i….
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with ….
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account..
I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego be….
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalt….
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity..
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If….
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and ….
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the q….
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?.
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should ….
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most importan….
When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence ….
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life….
For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays….
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphore….
I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new deat….
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest..