You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. . . . You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.
Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.
Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.
Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.
It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art historically. My job is to teach the creative process and let the chips fall where they may and people can then come along and form their opinions as to whether you fall into this genre or that genre.
There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.