Alt / Old Alter / Age Außergewöhnlich / Extraordinary Enorm / Huge Gewöhnliche / Ordinary Grund / Reason Hohes Alter / Old Age In der Vergangenheit / In The Past Teil / Part Vergangenheit / Past Vielzahl / Multitude Warum / Why Weil / Because
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
We don't get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
