“I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.” StillsLyingGoalImpulse Book:Rave: poems, 1975-1999 Source: Rave: poems, 1975-1999
“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.” WorldDreamActionLawLyingEnergyExistenceNormalOrdinaryConsciousIndependentEverydaySurfaceImpulseOur ThoughtsOur ActionsCasualBeneath The Surface Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue
“I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.” MenWayFeelsHeartEndsLyingSleepHalfBoysJourneyHe ManQuietAmbitionConscienceImpulseAccomplishmentTonightInnsHalf WayTariffs Author:Woodrow Wilson