Shalom, salaam, forever. I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung . The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
Poetry is an act of peace.
Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.