Consul - in American politics a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate or just never come back I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much and so I just went.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.

When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

When I leave here when my final day on this earth is up I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.