“I am. I was. I am not. I never am.”
Source: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. I
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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor
as quoted by Tracy Daugherty in an interview, Splice Today, 2 Sept 2009.
“Shadow am I!
Like a suspicion that's never confirmed
But it's never denied!
Wolf am I…”
Wolf Am I! (And Shadow).
Brother, Sister (2006)
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Fold of the Bards
Context: I am a harmonious one; I am a clear singer.
I am steel; I am a druid.
I am an artificer; I am a scientific one.
I am a serpent; I am love; I will indulge in feasting.
I am not a confused bard drivelling,
When songsters sing a song by memory,
They will not make wonderful cries;
May I be receiving them.
Like receiving clothes without a hand,
Like sinking in a lake without swimming
The stream boldly rises tumultuously in degree.
“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“I am old. I am young. I am Gwion,
I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
A tradition about Taliesin states that he was once a boy named "Gwion".
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin
“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)