Still Quotes

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.