Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

A poem should not mean but be.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

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

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 American dream.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.