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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011 
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“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”
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“Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?”
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“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”
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“Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.”
Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.”
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“I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.”
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“Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.”
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“You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.”
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“If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.”
Source : Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation
