To live is to war with trolls.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority