I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? The...y can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there must be a god in the house, let him be one That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness,... A vermilioned nothingness, any stick of the mass Of which we are too distantly a part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end,... Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women: I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.... Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken, Look! It is there!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of invi...ting the hungry man to his meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned,... Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will not let thee go. I hold thee by too many bands:... Thou sayest farewell, and lo! I have thee by the hands, And will not let thee go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long to hear that you have declared an independancy [sic]--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be nec...essary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Laidies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebelion [sic], and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »