Pastoral Resources

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.