top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
Humor
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
Poetry
"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
Students
"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do."
Life
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
Family
bottom of page