“Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.” KindLongStillsDoneChristianJobsFightingNextSleepLevelsMorningStruggleAchievePoetWake UpJewBuddhistGoing To SleepBeing FreeGood ChristianNightfallZen Buddhist Author:Maya Angelou
“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.” KindSeemsAmericaMovingPoetryUniverseProcessLevelsInformationPoetPerceptionTreatsSurfaceTendenciesDaily LifeOpennessParallelsReceptiveParallel UniverseBombarded Author:Rita Dove
“I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.” LongCertainLevelsActingExistenceCareersPoetFameRaisedSteadyMurphyBrittany Author:Amber Tamblyn
“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
“The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.” ProblemPoliticalLevelsSpecialPoetSkillsInventionDescribingLegislators Author:Robert Hass