For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

How can we trust our loved one, when there is mouthful of lies.....

A man's home is his wife's castle.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

I think confidence is the sexiest thing to have.

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.