Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.