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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Care is a state in which something does matter it is the source of human tenderness.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?Christians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is__ot that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness.We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.