Quotes About Revelation

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

With 'Clinton Cash,' we never really broke a story.

We're getting closer to our nature.

I was always a closet blues player.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

I didn't know my mother was an actress until I was eight and she went back to work. At an even younger age than that, I'd wanted to be an actress, so when I saw her, I clearly remember thinking, 'This is a strange coincidence.'

The comic I can now never enjoy again is Bill Cosby. He was truly one of the first comedians I got into.

People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.

The more that you reveal and the more you comprehend, the less scary it gets. That's sort of the H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker approach.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

All confessions are Odysseys.

I am Mr. McMahon's son. I always had a feeling that it was me. Now that it's been confirmed I could not be happier!