Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet it hurt so achingly bad.

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.

He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.