Bad quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff because it really comes from the heart.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

If you don't mark your successes the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office and there's no poetry in that.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong beautiful form to me and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play it has a poignancy to it.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from and it gets isolated by crisis and those crises are often very intimate also.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching I think.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

In fact in lyric poetry truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

When truth has no burning then it is philosophy when it gets burning from the heart it becomes poetry.

When it comes to atoms language can be used only as in poetry. The poet too is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally in the end pleasure.

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.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

In a tribal organization even in time of peace service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war service for the tribe or state becomes supreme and personal liberty is suspended.

Americans will listen but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries but they do not produce peace and when war comes as it inevitably does under such conditions these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

Israel welcomes the wind of change and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.