The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges present...
Patriotism is racism for the modern era.
We lack rituals in this modern world.
I'm not good at the modern world.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.
Don’t say that poetry, my friend, is beautiful or powerful for there is no powerful or beautiful poetry There is poetry that strikes you, secretly with the diseases of writing and schizophrenia, and you rave and your self leaves you for another
In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emoti...
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering – these are noble pursuits and necessary to...
...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way.
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid ...
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.