The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.
My master's degree was in English literature.
Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?
And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
There are things you stand up for because it's right.
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
