“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
““Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.”
“If at age 20 you’re not a liberal you have no heart. If at age 40 you’re not a conservative you don’t have a brain.”
“The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.”
““Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation.”
“Written over the gate here are the words ‘Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.’ Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.”
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
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Author: The Best American Poetry
