Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion... Our films. And our TV shows.
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.
No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.
You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont be a healthy relationship.
The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
