The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
Things are always terrible for some people. The question is the ratio of the palpable hurt to the general session of life in an era.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
Things take the time they take. Don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
