From my music training I knew that some Spanish rhythms apart 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

The lines of poetry the period of prose and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

As civilization advances poetry almost necessarily declines.

In their heyday the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode New Order or The Cure but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness the human soul is apt to revive also.

There are no lines in nature only areas of colour one against another.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.