As a society I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics because if I do I have to be responsible for my decision.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga the myths.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there I know there will be people who will listen.

We all need ways to express ourselves and poetry is one of mine.

Religious poetry civic poetry lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.