A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

Jean Genet

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Virgil

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Thomas Harrison

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Frederick Douglass

Everyone has a dream.

Rapunzel

There is no love which does not become help.

Paul Tillich

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Aretha Franklin

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Sherwood Smith

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles