"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

“I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?"”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

“Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.”

“Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.”

“Just be happy with life itself, period. I mean, I live every day to the fullest, you know. Yeah, set your goals out there but make them reachable, because, you know, every day every situation changes, and that's in everyday life. That's not just in the war, you know.”

“And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.108, eBookIt.com

“It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.”

“As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.