"It is as dangerous to overestimate the goodness of people
as to underestimate their stupidity."
"My neighbour doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants
to be envied."
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them
of only one thing: they are as clever as you."
"God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw
the creature He had made in His own image."
"If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened
to someone who studies the passion stains on the bedsheets."
"Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except
madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and
self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope."
"Everything except writing poems and making love ends up
by finally boring me."
"Blake was right; praise is the practice of art. Joy,
fullness of feeling, is the core of the creative mystery.
My dominant mood is that of ecstasy and gratitude. To have
written even one poem that speaks with rhythmic authority
about matters that are enduringly important is something
to be immensely, reverently thankful for - and I am
intoxicated enough to think I have written more than one."
"Idealist: a cynic in the making."
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