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- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
- Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.
- You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in…
- For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go…
- I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many…
- Blank pages inspire me with terror.
- The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to…
- He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.
- When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
- You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
- at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale