“The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace — not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.”

Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921. Source: Collected Works of Deshbandhu.
1921

Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves.
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has — the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge — infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

Salon interview (1997)

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

Reported in Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1854) p. 261.

Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)

As quoted by Peter Fabricius in Washington rejects Ramaphosa’s jibe that it is ‘jealous’ of Huawei’s 5G technology https://www.msn.com/en-za/money/technology/washington-rejects-ramaphosas-jibe-that-it-is-jealous-of-huaweis-5g-technology/ar-AAEckaI?ocid=spartanntp, Daily Maverick, 12 July 2019

The Tribune (28 March 1986).
1980s