Thomas Berger
Author: cwq
“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.”
“My writing is full of lives I might have led.”
“I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.”
Richard Strauss
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”
George Orwell
“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”
Cecil B. DeMille
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.”
John F. Kennedy
Poetry is “based in a craving to get through the curtains of things as they appear, to things as they are, and then into the larger, wilder space of things as they are becoming. This ambition involves a paradox: an instinctive belief in the senses as exquisite tools for this investigation and, at the same time, a suspicion about their crudeness.”
Mary Swenson