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

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

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

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.