“When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.” Quote by Jean-Philippe Rameau
“The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.” WorldNormalIllnessMental IllnessCollectivesSanityFacadeMadhouses Author:John Astin
“I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.” ThinkingAnswersMissions Author:John Astin
“I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.” PeopleMadePlayAudienceSpecialSpecial People Author:John Astin
“People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.” PeopleWantedSpaceAvailable Author:John Astin
“I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.” LanguageWishBritishEnglish LanguageAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.” WantedLiteratureVoiceNarrativeSonnetShakespeare's Sonnets Author:Diane Wakoski
“I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.” PeopleIfsThinkingReadingAsksReaderResponseVery GoodCriticalShyCriteriaPresenting Author:Diane Wakoski
“I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.” ThinkingYearsUseLiteratureLanguageInterestingPoetExcitingComplexesPoetry IsMost InterestingGreat PoetGreat PoetryYeats Author:Diane Wakoski