They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
“Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.”
“I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.”