I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.
When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.
Cynicism is a form of obedience.
I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.