Recall How Often In Human History The

The Poet, Like The Lover, Is A Menace On The Assembly Line.

The Acorn Becomes An Oak By Means Of Automatic Growth; No Commitment Is Necessary. The Kitten Similarly Becomes A Cat On The Basis Of Instinct. Nature And Being Are Identical In Creatures Like Them. But A Man Or Woman Becomes Fully Human Only By His Or Her Choices And His Or Her Commitment To Them. People Attain Worth And Dignity By The Multitude Of Decisions They Make From Day By Day. These Decisions Require Courage.

Deeds Of Violence In Our Society Are Performed Largely By Those Trying To Establish Their Self-esteem, To Defend Their Self-image, And To Demonstrate That They, Too, Are Significant.

Tenderness Emerges From The Fact That The Two Persons, Longing, As All Individuals Do, To Overcome The Separateness And Isolation To Which We Are All Heir Because We Are Individuals, Can Participate In A Relationship That, For The Moment, Is Not Of Two Isolated Selves But A Union

Lacking Positive Myths To Guide Him, Many A Sensitive Contemporary Man Finds Only The Model Of The Machine Beckoning Him From Every Side To Make Himself Over Into Its Image.