Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. – Vanessa Redgrave Category: Poetry
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney Category: Poetry
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. – Kenneth Koch Category: Poetry
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William R. Inge Category: Happiness
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert Category: Writing
