To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
