Wyatt

“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”
― Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner

“There’s too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here. I hope you’re right. Trust me, Moss said. I hate hearin them words, the driver said. I always did. Have you ever said them? Yeah. I’ve said em. That’s how come I know what they’re worth.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Form a proper conception of the image of virtue, a thing of exceeding beauty and grandeur; this image is not to be worshipped by us with incense or garlands, but with sweat and blood.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae;2 not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic