When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that...
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist...
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Anger is just not who I am, and I don't think it's what voters in the 6th district want. They want respectful, decent representation that contrasts so starkly with what we have in Washington.
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this...
I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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