Beware of giggle grins

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.