Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. ”

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you. ”

I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a poem when I was really young. I was in grade school and had found an Emily Dickinson poem in a textbook. ”

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this. ”

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. ”

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?' ”

I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful. ”

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. ”

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. ”

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods. ”