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American poet 1830–1886Related quotes
Book iii. Chap 2. Of Repentance
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?”
“I do not know. That is the only real truth, Shaarilla. I do not know.”
Source: The Elric Cycle, The Weird of the White Wolf (1977), Chapter 1, “A Woman Who Would Risk Grief to Her Soul” (p. 452)
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.”
Of Truth
Essays (1625)
J'accuse! (1898)
Context: A court martial, under orders, has just dared to acquit a certain Esterhazy, a supreme insult to all truth and justice. And now the image of France is sullied by this filth, and history shall record that it was under your presidency that this crime against society was committed.
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.
“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
Source: The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems