Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.Peter Lamborn Wilson
Quotes to Explore
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Joanne Rowling -
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
Felix Dennis -
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey -
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
Aaron McGruder
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater -
I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
Mandy Patinkin -
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
Nancy Lublin -
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig -
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Ed Koch -
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Kate Thompson -
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
Rand Paul -
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell -
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos -
I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
Valerie Plame
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot -
Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.
Hannah Kearney -
I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
Sally Phillips -
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
Jacki Weaver -
I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
Kate Voegele -
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
Peter Lamborn Wilson