Quote #19712
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write...
Quote #314
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Quote #4531
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Quote #33238
A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
Quote #10231
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Quote #33129
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of...
Quote #15722
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor;...
Quote #26016
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can–and surely...
Quote #21229
Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.
Quote #26937
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)