"Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go."

“When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.”

“I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.”

“I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”

Source : Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA

“I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'”

“For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.”

“I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?”

Source : Franz Wright (2011). “Wheeling Motel”, p.12, Knopf