Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.

Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.