Seinn Lann Quotes & Sayings

When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was ... this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. — Orhan Pamuk

I will tell you it simply: he felt he was falling. He felt he fell through a succession of wells, of holes, of chasms, and that I was there at windows, and we would be together for a moment as he fell by. Then I would rush to the next window , down and down, and he would fall past, and I would see him again. — Jesse Ball

I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end. — Franz Kafka

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore De Balzac

You are the one that you are looking for. — Audre Lorde

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. — George R R Martin