"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."

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"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Enemy,

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Enemy,

"Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation."

Francis Parker Yockey, American Writer

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"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."

Morley Safer, Canadian Journalist

Enemy,

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

Olin Miller, American Columnist

Enemy,

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

James Bovard, American Author

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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Enemy, Man, Revenge

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."

George Armstrong Custer, American Soldier

Enemy, March

"Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies."

Linda Chavez, American Author

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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Arthur Bloch, American Author

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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."

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"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

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"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"

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"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."

"Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation."

"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."

"Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies."

"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"

"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."

"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin."

"Envy is an insult to oneself."

"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."