Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!