Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and…

I take a bottle of wine and I go drink it among the flowers. We are always three; counting my shadow and my friend, the shimmering moon. Happily, the moon knows nothing of drinking and my shadow is never thirsty. When I sing the moon listens to me in silence. When I dance, my shadow…

First take up the words, Ponder their meaning, Then the fixed rules reveal themselves. But if you are not the right man, The meaning will not manifest itself to you.

Scoundrels without the wit to fit A word or two of verse together Are daunted not a whit to sit In judgement on the abstruse poetry of another. Such men will listen with attentive mind, Alert to see how many faults they find. And if they’re vexed because they fail to grasp the sense Of…

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. – Mark Twain