For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
