Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to... →
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is... →
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Ben Jonson
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for... →
Spike Jonze
I was always in love with music, but my parents never really saw that I had talent, and it was really just by chance that I made it into the Menuhin... →
Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
Kathryn Joosten