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.

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.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

Write verse not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry then don't by any means mother it but try your hand at verse.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means you have missed the body of the poem.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war the maintenance of world peace the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion which controls nations and peoples.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war a war which will last for generations.

Being a movie star and this applies to all of them means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace you're just fair game.

Although a soldier by profession I have never felt any sort of fondness for war and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Peace is not absence of conflict it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Give your dog or cat respect patience understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.