Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.