"It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries"

“If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,”

“there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.”

“I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.”

“When you have kids, you just can't believe your heart could love something so much. My kids inspire me every day and I think I'm a better singer now because they have given me a greater emotional well to draw from.”

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

Source : William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

“These are the most arrogant ***** in the world starting with Belichick on down.”

“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.”

“I am living. I remember you.”

Source : Marie Howe (1999). “What the Living Do: Poems”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company