“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.”

“Ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man... What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. Logos is deeper than logic.”

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”

“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”