Commander Lebedev wrote—‘After a communication session we invited Flight Engineer Savitskaya to the heavily laden table. We gave Sveta a blue floral print apron and told her, “ ‘Look, Sveta, even though you are a pilot and cosmonaut, you are still a woman first. Would you please do us the honor of being our hostess tonight?’ “
“Ouch,” says Roth
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
Dan SimmonsMots clés poets
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
Dan SimmonsMots clés experience pain calmness
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
Dan SimmonsMots clés masters obeying puppeteers
She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...
Dan SimmonsMots clés love beauty meaning compass
... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
Dan SimmonsMots clés past future meetings
... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
Dan SimmonsMots clés arrogance
The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become." Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: "Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
Dan SimmonsThe essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.
Dan SimmonsMots clés honor
... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...
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