You don't go after poetry you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Literature is a state of culture poetry is a state of grace before and after culture.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect not a pleasurable memory of itself but an immediate constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and yes read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

In the language of poetry where every word is weighed nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all not a single existence not anyone's existence in this world.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there looking at art books and reading poetry.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion but in fact what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

One will never again look at a birch tree after the Robert Frost poem in exactly the same way.

To me a cat is an easy pet they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really you're lucky if you get anything.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

Treaties of peace made after war are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

In particular the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

It has been after all 11 years more than a decade now of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War so that he would not be a threat to peace and security he has ignored and flaunted.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.