I started to send my work to journals when I was 26 which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention...
Clearly once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of...
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed...
When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the...
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry but there's no way...
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry...
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...
You are almost not free if you are teaching a group of graduate students to...
Of the individual poems some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or...
I want to encourage our people to educate our people to have the courage to...
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and...
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting I wouldn't have got...
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which...
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves provided that he has the...
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you...
I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and...
Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery - courage in escaping...