Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
