Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate Category: Poetry
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers Category: Poetry
A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko Category: Poetry
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. – H.W. Shaw Category: Self-Discovery
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. – Nelson Mandela Category: Freedom
