I’ve invested years of my life in building a haven here, and here I will remain among my friends as each day we grow older and each month some of us … - James A. Michener

The magnates of Poland used this tactic brilliantly, preaching loudly: “The most insignificant member of the gentry with one horse and sword is the equal of the most powerful magnate in his castle,” while at the same time depriving landless gentry of almost all rights and treating them with contempt. The peasant was kept happy by being assured that it was the magnate who defended Christianity. The townsman, who was allowed no rights whatever, was reminded: “It is the magnate who protects your freedom and your shop.

We guard them. We punish them if we recover them. We chain them. And still they seek their freedom.

Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them again.