Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!