Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.