"I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel."
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"Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being."
"There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here."
"To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult."
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
"Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue."
"Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character."
"What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance."
"Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain."
"Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night."
"The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response."
"Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe"
"The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement."
"How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?"
"Language is the light of the mind"
"People are brought up to think, "It's nice to be modest. It's nice to hide your light under a bushel." Well, bullshit! I've never bought that. In my business, the only thing you've really got is your talent; it's the only thing you have to sell."
"Jon passes from Darkness to Light."
"By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty."
"Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats."
"Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake."