The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The Faithful God called all believers into a sweet fellowship with his Son, Christ Jesus.

To pray is to say that there is more than I can see, and more than I can do. There is more going on than meets the eye.

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.

Working with Ava [ DuVernay] and Oprah [Winfrey], they're just so intimate. I feel like we're really family at this point.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.