"We are born poets. we become orators."

“Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.”

Source : FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Mar 07, 2015

“Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

“You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license.”

“I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.”

“We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.”

“The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.”

Source : The National Geographic, August 1926.

“A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.”