To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.