"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go."

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Source : The Waking (1953) p. 120

Theodore Roethke

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“I am a sucker for jackets!”

Source : "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories". Interview with Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.
“In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.”

Source : "ACTORS' DIALOGUE: Bob Gunton & Anne Archer". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.
“Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.”
“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
“Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.”
“[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.”
“In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.”
“Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.”

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