The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fundamental truths.

Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.

Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child.

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

I don't like watching myself. That's kind of weird but you know it's not me really, it's this character, which I think might make it a little easier.

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

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I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.