Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

A poem should not mean but be.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

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

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

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