"To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it."

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The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

— Babette Deutsch