Young
Young
saint augustine has-beens
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
character america littles
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
dream pursued
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
careers years publishing
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
real talent devotion
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
joseph-smith eliot
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
leadership insane hallucinations
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
leader paradise causes
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
time fun years
I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
women writing names
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
one-thing
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
book mean writing
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
age poet young
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
teaching writing thinking
I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.