“As they have dared, so shall I dare. Dare to tell the truth, as I have pledged to tell it, in full, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. My duty is to speak out; I do not wish to be an accomplice in this travesty. My nights would otherwise be haunted by the spectre of the innocent man, far away, suffering the most horrible of tortures for a crime he did not commit.”

“"In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so.”

“So the gay community said, "He's comparing gay sex to incest and polygamy, how dare he do this," and they have gone out on a, I would argue, jihad against Rick Santorum since then.”

“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”

“It is so horrible,
I dare at times imagine to my need
Some future state revealed to us by Zeus”

“My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody.”

“If suddenly you do not exist,
If suddenly you are not living,
I shall go on living.

I do not dare,
I do not dare to write it,
if you die.

I shall go on living.”

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”

“And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?”

“"I have such respect for the actual truth that there are moments when I do not dare to call things by their name," the poet ended.”