"Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards."

-- Mary Karr

“The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.”
“What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.”
“My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.”

Source : "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 1, 2002.
“Birds are the first and the greatest performers.”
“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”
“The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.”
“Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.”
“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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