If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. they want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
People do not like to think. if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. conclusions are not always pleasant.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
They are all friends of mine and honest people.
Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people.
The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
It is a hopeless endeavour to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
Society is at odds with itself.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
No people find each other more absurd than lovers.