I have got instincts that I think are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics or not in that partisan way.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

If I cry it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no I don't cry.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in there's something wrong with American politics.

Politics thrives on simple clean messages something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch and there's no one left to blame.

I was looking for something like baseball where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say 'Let's talk about something else.'

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe and which mean very little.

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.

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.

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.

Short fiction is the medium I love the most because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that though lacking a novel's length satisfies the reader.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally and that prose survived to get something said.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is concerned to know something that may be entertaining even delightful but is certainly inessential.

Poetry is something that happens in universities in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.