If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
