Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
