"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.
The measure of a good book is determined by how much it disturbs and troubles its reader.