'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
No nation has a single history, no people a single song.