“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.” PeopleKnowsYearsMeanImportantActorsCollegePoetHugeDirectorsImportant ThingsLife Experience Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.” FirstsSeemsNamesTermPoetHugeInspiredArtisticDividendsArtistic Life Author:Khalil Gibran Muhammad
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.” IfsGivingMindWellsCountryHardHappensAmericaThreeLinesPleasureKnownFourPoetHugeCoupleSheepWell KnownOccasionalPuffInhale Author:Michael Longley
“While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.” HardMomentsEyeSpaceBrainAirPoetHugeBattleEmptyHorseHarmonyWoundsRhythmHis EyesDancerSparksSculptorsEmpty Space Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I used to love to watch the birds nest. That political poem, or environmental poem, was unsuccessful because Safeway built there anyway. And yet the poem has something to say today, as it did then. And I speak here only of my own poems. The agenda for every poet has to be different because most of us write from direct human experience in the world.” WorldWritingHumansDifferentTodayPoliticalUsedSpeakMy OwnNumbersWatchesBuildingPoetHugeBirdBuiltDirectEnvironmentalUglyStoresAgendasHuman ExperienceNestsUnsuccessfulUsed To LoveLagoons Author:Sam Hamill
“I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.” EnergyPoetHugeListening Author:Grace Cavalieri