You go to a poem to get the mystery - and sometimes you go to get more confused. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes confuse mystery poem
I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not. Brenda Hillman existfiguregod Change image and share on social
I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of. Brenda Hillman concernfamilyfind share on social
The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer. Brenda Hillman compressionexperiencefeeling share on social
I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there. Susan Estrich afraidaskconfuse share on social
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen. Atom Egoyan concernholdinvolve share on social
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ideanonsensicalpoem Change image and share on social