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Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.

— Peter Weiss

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I've twisted and turned them every way,
And can see no ending to our play.

Marat/Sade (1963)

Fight on land and sea
All men want to be free
If they don't
never mind
we'll abolish all mankind

Marat/Sade (1963)

In Dante the hero would rather flee
and renounce the tempting embrace
instead of yielding to his desires
and enduring the attendant dangers.

We can say what we like without favour or fear
and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

Marat/Sade (1963)

What's the point of a revolution
without general
copulation copulation copulation

Marat/Sade (1963)

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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