I was totally absorbed in the real world the politics the history the news and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel it was in fits and starts.

Rush Limbaugh we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns well you know what they say in politics a hit dog hollers.

But poetry is a way of language it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats almost 100 years old now and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I had art as a major along with English French and History. I had dance modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry which I eventually got published.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

Even if you only want to write science fiction you should also read mysteries poetry mainstream literature history biography philosophy and science.

Cut quarrels out of literature and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

For me poetry is a situation - a state of being a way of facing life and facing history.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed for instance is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races nations or peoples there can be no peace.

Every animal has his or her story his or her thoughts daydreams and interests. All feel joy and love pain and fear as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than I should think at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words for good or ill can now so easily reach the millions.

One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.

Unfortunately our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

In all her history from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure and what a Man's resolution can achieve.