J.P. Morgan Quotes

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties.

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."