A retired college teacher who has turned to poetry in his old age.
Really look around. Its enough to make you retch. Scorching stupids stomping their own feet into mash, the worst of the worst transgressing
By William Alfred11 months ago in Poets
It baffles those whose minds can clearly see how simpletons can hate and hate so much that they will slice their noses clear away
Whoever begins by being a dupe ends by becoming a scoundrel. —Voltaire ____________________________________________________
The world is aflame with hatred and grievance, fear of professors and experts, Statesmen, scientists, teachers, writers—
Of a sudden, a freedom-fighter, standing at the wall against a ferocious despot for all lovers of liberty, is painted as a villain,
It is hard to rouse most people to action by appeal to their own interest. It is quite easy to rouse them to act with bold lies that they have been wronged.
There is no greater error in affairs than forcing, grasping, wielding, and then pressing every unjust advantage, or even just ones,
The first of philosophers told us that soul is more important than body, that the things we do are not as important as the state of our souls.
It is wise not to play cards with someone who holds only trumps.
