Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.
I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.
A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.
I don't think that anyone should be in control of a relationship. I think that if you have a woman that controls her man, he is a puppet, and he is weak.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
