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.

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.

Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance but in silence is safety.

As an artist I come to sing but as a citizen I will always speak for peace and no one can silence me in this.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact he hasn't the ability to see a woman objectively speaking until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

French is a foreign language but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.