Dancing Nancies
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
“I am who I am.
A coincidence no less unthinkable
than any other.”
“Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything.”
"Sheehan, in Cuba, protests Guantanamo prison," MSNBC, 2007-01-06 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16504209
2007
“Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 21
Context: “I saw myself,” Taran answered. “In the time I watched, I saw strength – and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other.
“But this, too, I saw,” he went on. “Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)
“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”
Source: Every Day
"I am not I", from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems, chosen and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 77
