Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke you've lost the whole thing.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms so thinking about distance thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art in poetry in music of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful moving or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else poetry in terms of psychology.

Clarity clarity surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world A limited limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on he decided to go into economics so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.