“Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred”

"Feels Like the End of the World", The Golden Hour (May 6, 2008).
Lyrics, Firewater

Breck Road Lover
Lyrics and poetry

Source: The Laughing Corpse

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 274)

Clark Kent, to his mother, Martha Kent, in an email
Superman: Birthright (2003–2004)

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

"Likeness to God", an address in Providence, Rhode Island (1828)
Context: I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy which forgives every wrong, and which never despairs of the cause of Christ and human virtue. I do and I must reverence human nature... I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

"Fall of a City"
Selected Poems (1941)
Context: All the lessons learned, unlearned;
The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey`s bray;
These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses
On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
Some old man memory jumps to a child
— Spark from the days of energy.
And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.