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.

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

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

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

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