"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." — Edgar Allen Poe, American poet, born 1809
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." — Edgar Allen Poe, American poet, born 1809
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed." — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born 1927
"We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?" — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born 1927
"We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections." — Sidney Poitier, American actor, born 1927
"There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." — Jackson Pollock, American expressionist painter, born 1912
"In response to the question, How do you know when you're finished?, Pollock replied, How do you know when you're finished making love?" — Jackson Pollock, American expressionist painter, born 1912
"Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego." — Paulina Porizkova, Czech-American model, born 1965
"Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?" — Anne Porter, American poet, born 1911
"But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last." — Anne Porter, American poet, born 1911
"All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it." — Anne Porter, American poet, born 1911
"Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?" — Anne Porter, American poet, born 1911