My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams. - Philip Schultz
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
- Philip Schultz
To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can'… - Philip Schultz
To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can'…
There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a d… - Philip Schultz
There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a d…
I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it reliev… - Philip Schultz
I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it reliev…
Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force… - Philip Schultz
Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force…
My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out. - Philip Schultz
My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.
I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge. - Philip Schultz
I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.
Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do. - Philip Schultz
Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from pain… - Philip Schultz
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from pain…
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