"The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own."

“Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.”

Source : "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

“The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.”

“witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.”

Source : Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.3, Harvard University Press

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

Source : John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

“Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.”

“Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.”

“I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.”

Source : "Laura Marling: 'Americans - they're just a lot more poetic'". Interview With Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

“I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.”