If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

When governments become large voters cannot exercise close oversight otherwise known as political power.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time so kids didn't know what to make of me.

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Publishing the lyric books poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Music is more emotional than prose more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and yes read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

The other side of it is that despite all that people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

For whatever reason people including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading do not read poetry.

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write but it's not.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.