writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.