Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

I really have to say 'thank you' to our fans, because I think it's difficult for European viewers to find and watch Asian movies, and I hope you enjoy our films.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Cleveland people are crazy; that's why I live here.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

When hungry eat your rice when tired close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me but wise men will know what I mean.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Men learn while they teach.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

There are but two places where all go after death white and black rich and poor those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those who are born again and who love God and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Live each day like its your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night.

A female vocal can lift a song.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.

Whenever you tell a group of people that they cant use bathrooms or they cant access spaces that other people use that is dehumanizing. It is discriminatory and it reinforces the stigma and the prejudices that the transgender community already faces.

You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.