Carl Andre (1935) American artist
Quote from a 1962 essay by Andre; as quoted in ' Objects Are What We Aren't' https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/26/objects-are-what-we-arent/, by Andy Battaglia; The Parish Review, February 26, 2015
“I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
Source: Nothing Twice: Selected Poems
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Violating the Boundaries: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez (1999)
“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
The Paris Review interview
Context: Every poem that works is like a metaphor of the whole mind writing, the solution of all the oppositions and imbalances going on at that time. When the mind finds the balance of all those things and projects it, that’s a poem. It’s a kind of hologram of the mental condition at that moment, which then immediately changes and moves on to some other sort of balance and rearrangement. What counts is that it be a symbol of that momentary wholeness. That’s how I see it.
“We are all writing God's poem.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2
