All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
Lord Alfred DouglasChildren and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean CocteauThe moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward BeecherIn November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer