Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace and the people whom they represent with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs urging them forward to war.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema and I've seen it three times is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.