At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Tom Brady's balls" Nothing more than a publicity stunt to keep the NFL Network from losing San Francisco's market share.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost."Um, " Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

To me, style is all about expressing your individuality freely and courageously.