"With what cracked pitchers go we to..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!”

“You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.”

“Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.”

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing.”

“The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell”

“Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.”

“The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.”

“I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”

“Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.”