Why should poetry have to make sense?

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.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message an advent of sense.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat a sense of wrong a homesickness a lovesickness.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

I am an enthusiast but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

But now Americans they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad and yet you know what can you do? It's here.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

When I am speaking about American presidents I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

I have no sense of patriotism but I do have a sense of community.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism that sort of thing.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Well the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

Heroism on command senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Honestly I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys not the hassles the love not the disappointments the common sense not the complexities.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.