Alexius Choi

“What does "poet laureate" mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now.”
― Nicholson Baker

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, "Hello, Reverend Thomas," I would choke on the sin of mocking him.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong