Jakob Karsten

“To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion