As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a career but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

For capitalism war and peace are business and nothing but business.

I'm at peace with my family my friends myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.