Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is you need to talk with children to teachers and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

When you're going through something whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody you often feel like 'Oh my God I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact poetry's a nice reminder that no everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

When you want a break from dogs and you take them to the kennel to the stars no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs 13 birds and 3 horses what does that tell you?

We have three cats. It's like having children but there is no tuition involved.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

People in Afghanistan want peace including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families they have relatives they have children they are suffering a tough time.

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions the Children of Abraham.

When I look back on my childhood I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

If there's no inner peace people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary it is always an evil never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come let it come in my time so that my children can live in peace.

If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war we shall have to begin with the children.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.