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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.