What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. Ther...
I realize that Facebook today is a global success with more than 600 million users worldwide. But I also understand, maybe a bit sadly, that it is not for me. Perhaps it is because I am a bit too old? Or perhaps it is because I am more interested in ...
I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I sh...
Wichita: [playing Monopoly] Ooh! Free parking... Little Rock: Yeah. Wichita: -which coincidentally is the best thing about Zombieland. Columbus: You want to know the best thing about Z-land? No- no Facebook status updates. You know, Rob Curtis is gea...
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
Your beauty questions the beauty of nature.
the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
