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

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

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

A poem should not mean but be.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.