The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect not a pleasurable memory of itself but an immediate constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
“Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.”
I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I...
I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that...
