I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
Misogyny is the death of the heart.
Secrets of the heart are seldom news.
sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.
In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.
... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.
There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.
Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.
TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.
For a poet, style is the only morality.
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.
High school was great when it ended.
Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.
I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.
I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.
We do what we can. The results are none of our business.
During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.
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