The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures..
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection..
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of tha….
Great influencers attract others..
I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life..
The quieter we become, the more we can hear..
Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself..
An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..
That's all I cared about too, was getting it right..
I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you..
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life..
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose..
When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..
It is hidden but always present..
You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia..
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual..
You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy..
There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him..
Everybody is influenced by someone..
Everything is deeply intertwingled..
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was..