I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes great live poet
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid. Garth Risk Hallberg earthfantasykid Change image and share on social
I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego. Garth Risk Hallberg abilityconfidentego Change image and share on social
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week. Garth Risk Hallberg dickdoctorowgraduate Change image and share on social
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. Bruce Babbitt agoamericancongratulate Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton abstruseageart share on social