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I never had much education in English poetry as such.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.