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“You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.”
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“Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?”
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“To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.”
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“And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.”
Source : Hart Crane (1966). “The complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane”, Anchor
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“Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.”
Source : "Britain Ignores the Angry Muslims Within at Its Peril". The Sunday Times, November 04, 2001.
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“Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.”
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“Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.”
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“One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.”
Source : "Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act". Interview with Mark Eisen, www.alternet.org. November 7, 2008. 
