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.

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.

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

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

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.