- "It is not the surface beauty of pleasure and happiness, but a deeper beauty we cannot easily name. Perhaps it is a terrible beauty (as the Irish poet W. B. Yeats called it), a passing glimpse of courage and endurance, of resistance and survival."
- - From the article 'OF BODIES AND TIME AND MELANCHOLY'
Writer, poet, translator, academician
University of Wisconsin–Madison, December 26, 2013, US