Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment t...
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying infl...
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will disc...
Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with “One” word. And that word consists of a beauty beyond any measure to man and one of the most beauty creations to grace th...
But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess — to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficul...
A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.
You should never reveal your true age.
Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
The true scientist lets truth emerge.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
I'm still true to my Southern roots.
Our true passions are selfish.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Blame and praise have no true effects.
Our true mentor in life is science.
At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
