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"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."Virginia Woolf
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few."Emily Dickinson
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!"Emily Dickinson
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."Sun Ra
"An anti-Communist is a dog. I couldn't see any way out of that one and I never will."Jean-Paul Sartre
"By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide."Jean Genet
"The poet cannot stay too long in the stratosphere of the Verb."
René Char
"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition."Barack Obama
"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away."J. D. Salinger
"Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."Susan Sontag