“Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.” WayHumansRunningSufferingHuman BeingsEnvironmentOur LivesPoetDecentCompassionateOur Environment Author:Sam Hamill
“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 would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.” MindHumansImportantYoungTermPoetConcernEntering Author:Edward Hirsch
“Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.” TryingHumansPersonsWrittenPoetWarmth Author:Edward Hirsch
“I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow people who have the condition to be more accepting of it, and to be open about it. That would be a contribution to the people who have it, and considering that 38% of the Pulitzer Prize winning poets are Bipolar, to think about how much these individuals have contributed to the human spirit.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansCharacterWould BeEyeSpiritWinningIndividualAcceptingConditionsPoetContributionPrizeConsideringHuman SpiritBipolarThrough The EyesPrize Winning Author:Paul Dalio
“The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.” ThinkingHumansWishPoetClosestGreat Poet Author:Robert Hass
“Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known on every level - in his personal life with his personal relationships and his love for his wife and his evolution with his family. Then as an artist, as an actor, as a writer, as a poet, and as a photographer. He never stopped.” HumansArtistActorsHuman BeingsLevelsKnownTeacherWifePoetEvolutionPhotographerPersonal LifeHis LovePersonal Relationships Author:Zachary Quinto
“As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.” KnowsHumansHardLanguageHuman BeingsPoetConversationApproachToolsHard TimesInterpreting Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.” HumansTermCitiesExamplePoetUniqueVoteStrangerDivorceConfusedInteractionAttorneyPolygamyCelibacyMammalsMonogamyUnique Things Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
“Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.” WorldHumansTodayAbleBeautifulSpiritualLanguageHuman BeingsSituationPoetAspectSpiritual LifeExistentialMysticalWorld TodayPersianPersian Poetry Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr