It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods but family friends and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.