In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

The best learning I had came from teaching.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

The worst thing I ever did is dance on the table.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.