“What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.”

— Kenneth Rexroth

Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)

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American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982

John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet

“My published work is just a record of my learning. I'm sharing it with people so they won't make the same mistakes that I did. It's been a painful and slow process. My work is like a journey, a journey of discovery.”

Thomas J. Sargent (1943) American economist

Thomas J. Sargent, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer

“It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: Fire with Fire

“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

1950-07-17 http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstchapters/story/0,6761,222716,00.html
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“In your [ composer Schönberg's ] works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.”

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter

in his letter to Arnold Schönberg, 18 Jan. 1911; as cited in Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 9
Kandinsky visited a concert with music of Schönberg on 11 Jan. 1911 with Franz Marc, Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter and others; they played compositions, Schönberg wrote in 1907 and 1909: his second string quartet and the 'Three piano pieces'
1910 - 1915

“There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out what I'm trying to say”

Anne Simpson (1956) Canadian poet

Susan Olding Interview (February 23, 2010)

“You must permit that I begin it in my own way, with what may to you at first seem dream-stuff.”

James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest

"Richard Fentnor Harroby" in Ch. 1 : Pallation of the Gambit
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: You must permit that I begin it in my own way, with what may to you at first seem dream-stuff. For I commence at Storisende, in the world's youth, when the fourth Count Emmerick reigned in Poictesme, having not yet blundered into the disfavor of his papal cousin Adrian VII.... With such roundabout gambits alone can some of us approach — as one fancy begets another, if you will — to proud assurance that life is not blind and aimless business; not all a hopeless waste and confusion; and that we ourselves may (by and by) be strong and excellent and wise.

“Even when I choose projects, if before, I looked only at my own character, I am now more interested in what the producers are trying to say through this project and what kind of statement they want to make.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "How Much Has Gong Yoo Changed Since His Debut? Actor Spills Tea In Recent Interviews" in Korea Portal http://en.koreaportal.com/articles/50498/20210919/much-gong-yoo-changed-debut-actor-spills-tea-recent-interviews.htm (19 September 2021)

“Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.”

Andy Goldsworthy (1956) British sculptor and photographer

Stone River Enters Stanford University's Outdoor Art Collection http://ccva.stanford.edu/Goldsworthy.html (4 September 2001)

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