Am Quotes (page 203)

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• evil
• better
• sinful

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• dark
• sleep
• terrified

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. Sylvia Plath

• omniscience
• know
• omniscient

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• real
• new
• leaving

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that. Lewis Thomas

• kindness
• life
• old

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...]My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the... Wallace Stegner

• friends
• friend
• baby

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend. Ernest Hemingway

• change
• personality
• believe

I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy. Nick Hornby

• childhood
• heart
• look

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart. Rainer Maria Rilke

• self
• grace
• old

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. Charles Spurgeon

• love
• women
• sick

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. Oscar Wilde

• silence
• crying
• short

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am. George Sand

• god
• gods
• godly

God, who am I? Sylvia Plath

• work
• excuses
• waves

I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Mary Oliver

• black
• poet
• soundness

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. Lucille Clifton

• freedom
• brings
• about

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. Thomas Jefferson