Philip Glass once told
Philip Glass once told me, They can always copy what you’ve done, but they can’t copy what you’re going to do. Errol Morris
Philip
A friend of mine
A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it. Emo Philips
It is not that
It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror … feeling. Most of us let … Read more
Gertrude Stein, all courage
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. Elizabeth … Read more
My heroes are people
My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too. Frederick Busch
I bear to the
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their … Read more
A Concordance of Leaves
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen’s succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger … Read more
Philip wasn’t the sort
Philip wasn’t the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn’t stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I … Read more
Aristotle dines when it
Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases. Diogenes
He was seized and
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed. Diogenes