Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it... →
George William Curtis
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them... →
John Cusack
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
Willem Dafoe
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march... →
Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My... →
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.