I became active in politics because I saw the possibility if we all sat back and did nothing of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
If there is one eternal truth of politics it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Politics as the word is commonly understood are nothing but corruptions.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
To those who have exhausted politics nothing remains but abstract thought.
In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
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.
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary the only home.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
And if they haven't got poetry in them there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether the trick they miss is that being called this thing with the weight of tradition behind it and with the association of the Royal family does allow you to have conversations and to open doors and wallets for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
In the language of poetry where every word is weighed nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all not a single existence not anyone's existence in this world.