Iryna Pankova

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
― W.D. Snodgrass

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey