What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.


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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON
I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON
I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON
Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON
There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States...
JOHN BOLTON
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuin...
JOHN BOLTON
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 ...
JOHN BOLTON
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instrume...
JOHN BOLTON
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but...
JOHN BOLTON
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your ...
JOHN BOLTON
I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
JOHN BOLTON
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
JOHN ACTON
My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
JOHN ASHCROFT
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are aro...
JOHN LOCKE
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT