"I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves."

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Source : Source: muse.jhu.edu

Albert Goldbarth

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.”
“The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.”
“There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.”
“The mind sees the world as a thing apart, Â Â And the soul makes the world at one with itself. Â Â A mirror scratched reflects no imageâ€” Â Â And this is the silence of wisdom.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.108, Courier Corporation
“I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but Iâ€™m having this one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Mar 14, 2014
“Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. Itâ€™s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.”
“I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.”
“I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.”

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