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

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

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

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'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

- Philip Schultz

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it…

- 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…

- 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…

- Philip Schultz