Pastoral Resources

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Life is best when you are in love.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.