Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.
My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
