Source: The Collected Poems
"Elm" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/elm.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965) <br class="br">Context: p>I am inhabited by a cry.<br>Nightly it flaps out<br>Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thing<br>That sleeps in me;<br>All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.</p
“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes
Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre
Mobutu, asked by a German journalist to justify the expense of his Concorde while the nation's economy was in crisis. Meredith, p. 532
“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
As quoted in Alexander the Great (1973) by Robin Lane Fox
Unsourced variant : Only sex and sleep make me conscious that I am mortal.
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Variant: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Source: Thirst
“Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping…”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.”
Adam Levine (1979) singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States
On the need for change
No byline (2004-10-14), "Voices for Charge". Rolling Stone. (959):64-70.
