“I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.”

Huang, Michael,<i>"Anger Management"</i>,Chicago Cubs Vineline, Volume 22, Issue 7, page 14
2007

Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

Source: The Lazarus Project

The Tower of Learning
Song lyrics, Poses (2001)

Final stanza of manuscript notes for "God Blessed America" which later became "This Land Is Your Land" (23 February 1940)

On painter Rufino Tamayo.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
Context: He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that — great good God, think of it — we're alive, and on our way to weather, from the sea to the hot interior, to watermelon there, a bird at night chasing a child past flowering cactus, a building on fire, barking dogs, and guitar-players not playing at eight o'clock, every picture saying, "Did you live, man? Were you alive back there for a little while? Good for you, good for you, and wasn't it hot, though? Wasn't it great when it was hot, though?"

Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), "The Orange Tree"

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).