If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to read more

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of read more

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.