After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.