Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

When governments become large voters cannot exercise close oversight otherwise known as political power.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Fiction will always be my greatest love with poetry close behind.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose I can only do what I am given and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal which we all want to surpass and some don't.