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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application.

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.