I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

G. K. Chesterton

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

Alan Wilson Watts

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

Peter Ustinov

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

Oded Fehr

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Susan B. Anthony

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

John Selden

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Thierry Henry

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

Samuel Johnson

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

John Churton Collins