One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
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.
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.
Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.