Susan Stewart Quotes
Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'

Quotes to Explore
-
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
-
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
-
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
-
We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
-
Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
-
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
-
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
-
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
-
I'm very humble.
-
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
-
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
-
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
-
So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.
-
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
-
'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
-
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
-
Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
-
A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.
-
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
-
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
-
Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.
-
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
-
Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'