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.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.