Poetry it is often said and loudly so is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences I often read poetry.

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

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

When you're going through something whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody you often feel like 'Oh my God I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact poetry's a nice reminder that no everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Too often in the past U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.

I have often supported Israel I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

My actions to promote peace the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts which very often occurred between brothers of the same country are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical questioning and often angry patriotism.

During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

I often get letters quite frequently from people who say how they like the programmes a lot but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.