Union of the weakest develops strength
Not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge
One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn?
But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Source: Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery, sct. 50, in Ideas of Order, 1936.
-- Wallace Stevens, (Oct 2 1879-1955), US poet, author; He was noted for subtle verse of reality and imagination; won 1955 Pulitzer for Collected Poems.