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Breyten Breytenbach
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt do
Breyten Breytenbach
James Baldwin
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
We take our shape, it is true, within and against
James Baldwin
H. L. Mencken
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Intuition? Bosh! Women, in fact, are the supreme r
H. L. Mencken
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism, and dare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Molière
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or
Molière
W. Somerset Maugham
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation
W. Somerset Maugham
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Blake
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
William Blake