Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
Poetry can magnify experience.
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.
Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.
Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.
We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?
I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.
Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.