A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts they're kindred spirits.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters relationships and themes it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find the accidents of what you stumble across.

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.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed instead as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it but anybody can do it.