“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.” WorldWritingEndsSelfDreamPainFacesEvilHalfDespairOfficeAnxietyWindowTrainDepthPopulationPainfulStrangerFoolishPostsGood And EvilContinentsClosestAgonyDisguiseGlimpseOur DreamsEnd Of The WorldDiscouragementLove And DeathPost OfficeRefreshmentsClumsiness Author:John Cheever
“The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.” DreamPeaceMorningHorrorWelcomeRaysAgonyReign Author:William C. Bryant
“And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.” KnowsArtDreamDeathTearsTerribleAgony Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems
“This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.” DreamDiesFightingStrongBloodSurvivalWeakFoolishAgonyTreatiesGrimIdealisticPeace Treaties Author:Dan Wells