It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.
If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.
All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.
You are walking in a desert. You hear a bird singing. As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree. That's poem
Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.
I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.
The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in the '90s becoming part of a system where financiers and movie stars could change the material. I came along just before all that happened.
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.