"I’ve written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck." ― J. Michael Straczynski Topic(s): Poetry More From J. Michael Straczynski "People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives." "Never follow somebody else’s path; it doesn’t work the same way twice for anyone… the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way." "The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we’re going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years – the last 50 years really – has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering." More In Poetry "The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."― Robert Morgan "Poetry and prayer are very similar."― Carol Ann Duffy "We read Robert Browning’s poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough."― Carl Sandburg