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.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

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

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

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