It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic... →
P. J. O'Rourke
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.'... →
More modern poetry is written than read.
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's... →
Joyce Carol Oates
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo... →
Tea Obreht
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love... →
Ric Ocasek
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror... →
Phil Ochs
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my... →
Ben Okri
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was... →