Freedom is poetry taking liberties with words breaking the rules of normal speech violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense which not all have with an uncommon sense which very few have.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm well-being and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense it has particular ways of catching an environment.

So I suppose poetry language the shaping of it was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

But I am not political in the current events sense and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry more akin to drama if you will.

That sense of a life in natural objects which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice was then in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders listens penetrates where the earlier less developed consciousness passed lightly by is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a metaphoric connection as any poetry does.

Poetry even when apparently most fantastic is always a revolt against artifice a revolt in a sense against actuality.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message an advent of sense.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat a sense of wrong a homesickness a lovesickness.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

I am an enthusiast but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

But now Americans they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad and yet you know what can you do? It's here.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

When I am speaking about American presidents I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

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.

Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.