If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

those who despair of life are not long for it.