Asperis Quotes

#1. Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#2. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.

Philip Roth

#3. When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

Margaret Walker

#4. When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.

James Arthur

#5. When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.

Jonathan Dee

#6. His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

William Shakespeare

#7. We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die together.

Melissa De La Cruz

#8. Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Anne Bradstreet

#9. It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Dorothy Gilman