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“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press
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“I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!”
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“It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.”
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“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
Source : Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.79, A&C Black
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“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
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“There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.”
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“Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.”
Source : Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.44
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“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”
