"Another's estimate has never the rich completeness of the sudden word from the inner self."

"...of poetry as daily fare-of poetry as being as much the daily bread as the white hyacinths of life."

"There is nothing to be afraid of in the name of poetry, though it is in all languages and in all ages a name for wisd…"

"This working partnership of facts and imagination gives us reality, which I think is another word of poetry. I do not…"

"For the world, which seems so various, is made up to a large extent of a few patterns used over and over again in inn…"

"The lack of understanding that comes from actual ignorance is notorious. Most North Americans know nothing even of Pu…"

"Science of course is the great international bond."

"Translators, again-the most abused and patient lot of folk on earth-are helpful in making us better acquainted; thoug…"

"Puerto Rico is Spanish American in its past, Anglo-Saxon in its present, and, I trust, in the deepest sense Pan-Ameri…"

"Many temples have been built to shelter Pan-Americanism. Some of them have been built with marble, some with words. B…"