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Quotes About Unity

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
~ W.B. Yeats
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.
~ W.B. Yeats
May it not even be that death shall unite us to all romance, and that some day we shall fight dragons among blue hills, or come to that whereof all romance is but "Foreshadowings mingled with the images Of man's misdeeds in greater days than these"
~ W.B. Yeats
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street
~ W.H. Auden
We must love one another or die
~ W.H. Auden
To make one, there must be two.
~ W.H. Auden
The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between one person and another.
~ W.H. Auden
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full strength of Collective Man.
~ W.H. Auden
Every eye must weep alone Till I Will be overthrown But I Will can be removed, Not having sese enough to gaurd against I Know, But I Will can be removed. Then all I's can meet and grow, I am become I Love, I Have Not I Am Loved Then all I's can meet and grow,. Till I Will be overthrown Every eye must weep alone.
~ W.H. Auden
When truly brothers, men don't sing in unison, but in harmony.
~ W.H. Auden
joining the crowd is the only thing all men can do.
~ W.H. Auden
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
~ W.H. Auden
the hospitals alone remind us Of the equality of man.
~ W.H. Auden
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
~ Unknown
It's love that makes the world go round.
~ Unknown
I try to hear you remembering that we are not separate to find you who cannot be lost or elsewhere or incomplete
~ W.S. Merwin
the dead are not separate from the living each has one foot in the unknown and cannot speak for the other
~ W.S. Merwin
all these years I have looked through your limbs to the river below and the roofs and the night and you were the way I saw the world
~ W.S. Merwin
Traveling Together" If we are separated, I will try to wait for you on your side of things your side of the wall and the water and of the light moving at its own speed even on leaves that we have seen I will wait on one side while a side is there
~ W.S. Merwin
The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
~ W.S. Merwin
The hour has come when energy and pure love are needed.
~ Unknown