Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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.
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out. '. . . I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will grow back. ' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know. '. . . But in a year's time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.