Quotes About Vision

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

Eyes closed on an open soul...the world starts from within its core towards its final frontier: the end surface.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.