The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.