The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.