Betty Fraser

My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…

Historians must break out of the prison of ideas.

Rosalie Chang - Hubert Wong

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

(Driving through a Picaso painting) Take that Guernica!

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

I think that I have influenced several generations of performers in Mexico. I’m proud of that because it isn’t easy in these scenes. But then it is easy because it’s what you love to do, and it’s your passion. Even in your down times, you are always accompanied by your music.

Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

People do not recognise that there’s a lot of talent; a lot of energy that go into putting up a production.

Nuno Antunes - Álvaro Mangino

Even if you have three or four extra syllables—or as many as five or seven—you need not worry as long as the verse sounds right.

Will Wright - Art Kleiner

It is our dreams that point the way to freedom. Those dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us the strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.