States Lose

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or lose:

“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

“Our doubts are traitors,
And makes us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)