"[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns."

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Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

Robert Hayden

#Reality Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“I want you to know that should something happen to me, donâ€™t worry about my body. My soul isnâ€™t going to return to it, nor to God. Itâ€™s flying straight to you, where it knows it can find you, in Lazarevo. I want to be neither with kings nor heroes, but with the queen of Lake Ilmen.”
“The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.”

Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.
“The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.”
“I guess thatâ€™s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
“If everyone used the Internet to share the things they created themselves, what would that look like? I think it makes objects special again. I guess I'm not really advocating for no objects in the world, but rather the idea of creating within our present means.”
“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very literal word collage and from there I'll sculpt it for and whatever reason the song sort of presents itself. It's a bizarre process.”
“Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.”

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