#is

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#advance #against #albeit #brought #classical

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#cover #encounter #fanaticism #forms #fundamentalism

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#been #chair #discoveries #easy #farther

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#clashes #culture #desires #ego #everyone

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#cover #film #finished #getting #glamorous

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#american music #beginning #changed #charles #his