There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Office politics are bloody-minded but weak on content.

I've been to war and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying and the consequences are serious.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and blood and tears.

To be born in Wales not with a silver spoon in your mouth but with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul is a privilege indeed.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas nerved and blooded with emotions all held together by the delicate tough skin of words.

Peace above all things is to be desired but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but if this War should continue I wish to have the most active part in it.