“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.”
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“Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?”
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
“Shut out the evil love of the world, that you may be filled with the love of God.”
“Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
“Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.”
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”