Its an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. – Harold W. Dodds
Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – Aldrich Ames
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. – John Drinkwater