Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
