No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
