Then of course there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads my relationship with Clinton and his wife Hillary made me a better journalist.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

I know many writers who first dictate passages then polish what they have dictated. I speak then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

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.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

TRUE permanent peace can never be restored until slavery the occasion of the war has ceased.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and for me memorable occasion and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.