To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!