One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.