In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
Politics is like football if you see daylight go through the hole.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Since the printing press came into being poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
No what I should really like to do right now in the full blaze of lights before this illustrious assembly is to shower every one of you with gifts with flowers with offerings of poetry - to be young once more to ride on the crest of the wave.
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.
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders listens penetrates where the earlier less developed consciousness passed lightly by is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of a good drive.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry is a sword of lightning ever unsheathed which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.
I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
Men may yearn for peace cry for peace and work for peace but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful.
Most people go I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
Religion brings to man an inner strength spiritual light and ineffable peace.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness war and peace rise and fall only that person has truly experienced life.
Those who have experienced the most have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but if this War should continue I wish to have the most active part in it.