“I am. I was. I am not. I never am.”
Source: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. I
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“I am never needlessly obscure—I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.”
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)
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.”
Source: The Final Empire
“I am old. I am young. I am Gwion,
I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”
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.”
Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)