I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Philip Levine

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees.

Terry Pratchett

I am a huge sports fan.

Kris Allen

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody wants to hear R&ampB. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Jamie Foxx

That's right. Act like rejected . It's not like you tried to kill me or anything.

Cassandra Clare

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Robert Morgan

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Bertolt Brecht

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell