Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

If it is an imperfect word no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd but then more women than men I think read and write poetry.

Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

God is the perfect poet.

Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really really big dog! Huge!

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.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

Nature who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues inspires now this impulse now that one in accordance with what she requires.

Nature is perfect.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.

If you don't know how to die don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

As regards the individual nature woman is defective and misbegotten for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.