anticipation quotes

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

- Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)
  House of Commons, 29 Mar.

Siendo el esperar sentada la forma ma  s muerta de la espera muerta, siendo el esperar la forma menos estimulante de muerte. To wait, seated in a chair, is the deadest form of dead anticipation, and waiting the most uninspired form of death.

- Luisa Valenzuela
  Cambio de armas,'Ceremonias de rechazo' (translated as OtherWeapons,'Rituals of Rejection',1985).

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.