Quotes

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
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Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this; for it will come to pass that every braggart will be found an ass.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

In Germany after World War II, the authors of what was called Trümmerliteratur, rubble literature, felt the need to rebuild their language, poisoned by Nazism, as well as their country, which lay in ruins. They understood that reality, truth, needed to be reconstructed from the ground up, with new language, just as the bombed cities needed to be rebuilt…And it is for us…to undertake the task of rebuilding…faith in the truth. And to do it with new language, from the ground up.

I love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
I love to laugh
It's getting worse ev'ry year

You and I are birds that don't fly together.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.