Write Penalty

Famous quotes containing the words write and/or penalty:

“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

“Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,—that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)