James Oppenheim

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and a great joy clutches my throat! Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands fire-unfurled— O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City of the World!"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"

"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping into the flowers of my heart..."

"We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear."

"Man's the bad child of the universe."

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet."

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."