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  • Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

    Art   Powerful   Struggle  
    Source: poems.com
  • I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."

    Mean   Thinking   Secret  
    Source: poems.com
  • My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

    Source: poems.com
  • Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

    Source: poems.com
  • To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.

    Father   Names   People  
    Philip Schultz (2009). “Failure”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

    Revenge   Father   May  
    Source: poems.com
  • There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

    Revenge   Real   Two  
    Source: poems.com
  • Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

    Dream   Art   Crucible  
    Source: poems.com
  • Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

    Source: poems.com
  • My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.

    Father   Struggle   Long  
    Source: poems.com
  • My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

    Source: poems.com
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