Nothing Quotes

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.