A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.