When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.