“I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the subu...”

“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”

“The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed...”

“Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.”

“Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideol...”

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”

“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.”

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”

“I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, becau...”