This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
The world exists to end up in a book.
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers. '
Well, I don't let anyone record with me that is not a fan of mine or believe in my music. Everybody that records for me, from Bob Dylan on down to George Jones, everybody loves me and my music, and I knew they would do their best that they could do, and they did. I didn't doubt them a bit. There's some country people that I wouldn't want, which didn't record with me.