Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now throwing information at you making everything available to you and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs it's about song writing.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and ultimately end pet homelessness.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house just sort of roaming about.

In their heyday the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode New Order or The Cure but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats a pet store seems to say 'Here we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because and I am not making this up he had a pet cat.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

I've always been mad about cats.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

I'm at peace with my family my friends myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.