I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
Category Archive: 1890
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Old age is a shipwreck.
I can only say that one’s individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
Nothing can justify war.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.