Before the tongue can speak it must have lost the power to wound.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.

All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

I hate injustice and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives a politics that does not speak to and include people is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I know many writers who first dictate passages then polish what they have dictated. I speak then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

When I hit a block regardless of what I am writing what the subject matter is or what's going on in the plot I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why but it calms me calms my brain.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear that in America poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

From my music training I knew that some Spanish rhythms apart 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Poetry is at the centre of my life too emotionally speaking and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point life itself takes over again.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

You know people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.