With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Humankind cannot stand reality.