You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because unless we do all of these things it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run you may lose. And if you tie you do not win.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry unless of course the life has been made into an art.
Children can write poetry and then unless they're poets they stop when reach puberty.
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write I believe are in your heart.
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.