How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . . Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.
Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.