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Philip Schultz
American
Poet
Born:
1945
Great
Me
Myself
Reading
Think
You
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When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.
Philip Schultz
Dyslexic
World
Fault
Way
All The Difference
He
He Or She
She
Knows
Makes
Brain
Child
Difference
Programmed
I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.
Philip Schultz
Every
Circus
Never
Talent
Audience
Move
Then
Doubted
I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.
Philip Schultz
You
Progress
Sometimes
Seen
Own
Think
Way
Some
Someone
Take
Go
Stop
Where
Want
Anyone
Worked
Thereafter
Now
I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
Philip Schultz
Love
Day
Great
Great Deal
Slow
Reading
About
Selective
Read
Reader
Because
Deal
Very
Mean
Painfully
Therefore
Fast
Careful
What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.
Philip Schultz
Thoroughly
Retain
Almost
Almost All
Read
I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
Philip Schultz
Myself
Good
Me
Worth
Reading
Before
Exciting
Over
Read
Understand
Effort
Same
Often
Sentence
Convince
Enjoyable
I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.
Philip Schultz
Family
Together
Exaggeration
Try
Big
Lying
Jews
Others
Top
Immigrant
Would
Russian
Come
Were
Get
Get Together
Stories
Bigger
Storytellers
Aspect
Who
Large
If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.
Philip Schultz
Confidence
Words
Assume
Right Words
Clarity
Find
Some
About
Idea
Feel
Safely
How
Get
Then
Right
My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.
Philip Schultz
Life
Art
Myself
Great
Anxiety
Better
My Life
Live
Imagination
Way
Great Place
Had
Head
Feel
Disapproval
Making
Escape
Place
I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.
Philip Schultz
Age
Dyslexic
Symptoms
Mine
Immediately
Recognized
Never
Had
Name
Also
Well
Known
Were
Grade
Middle
Middle Age
Children
Then
Found
Second
Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'
Philip Schultz
Class
School
Stupidity
Old
Made
Kids
Perceived
Having
New
Leave
Been
Repeating
Dummy
Grade
Hitting
After
Placed
Asked
Old One
Who
Fun
Third
I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.
Philip Schultz
Complicated
Thought
Made
Reading
Young
Not Knowing
Think
Something
Having
Only
Writer
Had
Knowing
Because
Understand
Maybe
Being
Ordeal
Dyslexia
Now
I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.
Philip Schultz
Old
Back
Until
Learn
Read
How
Years
End
Grade
Fifth
Held
I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
Philip Schultz
Big
Characters
Kind
Memorable
Write
Cathedrals
Audacious
Overflowing
Ernest Hemingway
Walker
Stories
Decided
Created
Hemingway
Saul
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
Philip Schultz
Word
Every
Trenches
Chapters
Sign
Focused
Significance
Examining
Poetry
Along
Overall
Fiction
While
Sentence
Each
Deeper
I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.
Philip Schultz
Myself
Enough
Recognition
One Thing
Seeing
Someone
Had
Nevertheless
Well
Well Enough
Unworthy
Fallible
Get
Accustomed
Who
Grown
Thing
Suddenly, everyone wanted to talk to me, it seemed. And not about my poetry: it was my dyslexia they were most interested in.
Philip Schultz
Me
Everyone
About
Seemed
Poetry
Most
Talk
Were
Wanted
Interested
Dyslexia
Suddenly
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.
Philip Schultz
Teacher
Time
Poet
Reading
Slowly
More
Like
Know
Read
Than
Any
I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.
Philip Schultz
Alone
World
Expectation
Some
More
Never
Merciless
Feel
Than
Expects
Certain
Certain Level
Helpless
Traveling
Level
Competence
Extent
I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me.
Philip Schultz
Home
Me
You
Strange
People
Made
Say
Easier
Machines
Out
Online
Schedules
Ticket
Know
Most
Print
Passes
Sounds
Very
Automated
Boarding
Traveling
Harder
Actually
Things
Technologies
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