Being a lady Quote by Diane Wakoski

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of…

— Jim Carroll

“UNDERLYING NEED “COPING” MECHANISM To have support in figuring out your talents Getting stoned to avoid thinking about it To be loved, held, appreciated…

— M.J. Ryan

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of…

— Twyla Tharp

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry…

— Edward Hirsch

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or…

— Rene Char

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

— Anonymous

Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well…

— John Hench

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton