I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!

Brains were no good to a working man

Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.

It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.