"And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water."

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

Dana Gioia

#Summer Quotes #Hate Quotes #Rain Quotes

“Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at itâ€“how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We arenâ€™t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”
“Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.”
“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”

Source : Wladyslaw Szpilman (2011). “The Pianist”, p.145, Hachette UK
“Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.”
“It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it”
“I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.”
“It's always refreshing to step into another time.”
“One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks and things that you like to do. The most exciting thing I think for a writer is when the characters just start speaking for themselves. You sit down at your keyboard and just stuff starts jumping out of their mouths. They just sort of wrote the scripts for themselves.”

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