We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.