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“Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?”
Source : Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company
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“But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.”
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“The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.”
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“I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.”
Source : "Q&A: The Walking Dead's David Morrissey on The Governor's Revenge". Interview with TJ Kosinski, www.esquire.com. February 08, 2013.
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“In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?”
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“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”
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“And falling's just another way to fly.”
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“It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.”