There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist. Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.