“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. ”
“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”
“There are possibilities that exist beyond our present "knowing," and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe.”
“We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.”
“To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.”
“There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!”