Derek Mahon (1941) Poet
Paris Review 154, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/732/the-art-of-poetry-no-82-derek-mahon
Derek Mahon (1941) Poet
Paris Review 154, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/732/the-art-of-poetry-no-82-derek-mahon
“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke - A Soul History
“Solitude has become my companion.”
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945) Swedish female singer
When Fredrik Skavlan asks Lyngstad about her influences of her personality.
Interview on Skavlan (2014)
Charles Bukowski book Factotum
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 17
Context: I got into bed, opened the bottle, worked the pillow into a hard knot behind my back, took a deep breath, and sat in the dark looking out of the window. It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
"The Convergence of the Twain" (Lines on the loss of the Titanic) http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/916.html (1912), lines 1-3, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)