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“Do you hear the children singing?”
Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, “London Bridge”
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“Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success”
Source : Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.360, Derrydale Press
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“It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.”
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“Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.”
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“I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.”
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“All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism.”
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“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”
Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.121, University of Chicago Press
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“It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.”
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“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
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“In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.”
Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe
