Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat a sense of wrong a homesickness a lovesickness.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach however small.
Peace begins with a smile.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
When words leave off music begins.
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know that the only solid though a far slower reformation is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
Harvard Medical School the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted problem gambler.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness but after that he begins to bunch them.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
In the area we're discussing leadership begins on Madison Avenue on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.