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

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.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your read more

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

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.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be read more

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.