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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."
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"In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really."
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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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"I feel very connected to poets across the country."
Nation
"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
Art
"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."
Hope
"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
Change
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
Family
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
Art
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
Nature
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
Poems
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
Experience
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