Will Allen
Will Allen
Will Allenis an American football safety who is currently a free agent. Allen played college football for Ohio State University, and received All-American honors. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he has also played for the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth17 June 1982
heart garden feelings
I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
facts normal alive
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
paris
...the bewildering beauty of Paris...
poet scientist
Scientist alone is true poet.
rain america snow
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
typewriters howl great-writers
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
nice eight average
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
important quality generations
Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
dream book odyssey
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
world
I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
moving thinking artist
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.
book heaven
All these books are published in Heaven.
giving-up mean writing
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.
records levels consciousness
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.