The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, read more

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love read more

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

It is fraud to conceal fraud

It is fraud to conceal fraud

So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of read more

So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth