Quotes from authors that died on Sep 12th
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
Serge Lang
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Eugenio Montale
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
Jean Philippe Rameau
Maya Lin 
Rocco Buttiglione 
Alexander Fleming 
Sylvia Sidney 
Margaret Hamilton 
James L. Brooks 
Barbara Stanwyck 
Naomi Klein