Philip Schultz

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me…

— Philip Schultz

“.... Bless their believing happiness will make them happy; that the ocean is magical, a kingdom where we go to be human,…

— Philip Schultz

My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for…

— Philip Schultz

Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to…

— Philip Schultz

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or…

— Philip Schultz

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

— Philip Schultz

To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No,…

— Philip Schultz

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The…

— Philip Schultz

“I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could…

— Philip Schultz

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it,…

— Philip Schultz

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

— Philip Schultz

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the…

— Philip Schultz

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

— Philip Schultz