I had many teachers that were great positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

People don't really understand but having people stare and point and take pictures even if it is in a positive framework is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit you know freakish.

Well you know a lot of people look at the negative things the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints such people have a corpse in their mouth.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound and when you understand it it is only ridiculous.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

The more poetry you have in the head the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die be reborn die again but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

A poem can have an impact but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.