"All poetry is the reproduction of the tones of speech"

"The poet's dilemma..to create order in the midst of disorder"

"To reveal man in relation to the universe the poet must show himself not only concerned with the immensities but with…"

"It takes a heap o’ children to make a home that’s true, And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe; Bu…"

"I thought that the poets in the anthologies were the only real poets, that their being in the anthologies was proof o…"

"Louis Untermeyer was contributing poems which dealt with the realities of the class struggle, but which sounded a not…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

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

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