Nothing is more intolerable

“Nothing is more intolerable than publicly employed guardians of morals. Whoever acts with a pure heart is always the first to be misunderstood by the people with the moral and religious yardstick.” – Hegel

On poetry

“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch bearers, but children of the fire, made of it.” – Emerson

"I brought her back and compelled her to be my lover. It satisfied me to have her before me as proof of my unbroken solitude..."   -Hermann Mann