Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
I believe the gun has no power at all.
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
