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Quote Left What would you have me do? Search out some powerful patronage, and be Like crawling ivy clinging to a tree? No thank you. Dedicate, like all the others, Verses to plutocrats, while caution smothers Whatever might offend my lord and master? No thank you. Kneel until my knee-caps fester, Bend my back until I crack my spine, And scratch another’s back if he’ll scratch mine? No thank you. Dining out to curry favour, Meeting the influential till I slaver, Suiting my style to what the critics want With slavish copy of the latest can’t? No thanks! Ready to jump through any hoop To be the great man of a little group? Be blown off course, with madrigals for sails, By the old women sighing through their veils? Labouring to write a line of such good breeding Its only fault is that it’s not worth reading? To ingratiate myself, abject with fear, And fawn and flatter to avoid a sneer? No thanks, no thanks, no thanks! But just to sing, Dream, laugh, and take my tilt of wing, To cock a snook whenever I shall choose, To fight for yes and no, come win or lose, To travel without thought of fame or fortune Wherever I care to go to under the moon! Never to write a line that hasn’t come Directly from my heart: and so, with some Modesty, to tell myself: My boy, Be satisfied with a flower, a fruit, the joy Of a single leaf, so long as it was grown In your own garden. Then, if success is won By any chance, you have nothing to render to A hollow Caesar: the merit belongs to you. In short, I won’t be a parasite; I’ll be My own intention, stand alone and free, And suit my voice to what my own eyes see! Quote Right
Quote Left Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Quote Right
Quote Left A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Quote Right
Quote Left We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Fester

Quote Left Loneliness is like a festering wound. At first it isn't a problem, but with time it'll be harder and harder to recover from. Quote Right
Quote Left Courage is the only thing that takes a step forward whilst the rest of you, festers Quote Right
Quote Left Those who let sleeping dogs lie, fear to open his sleeping eye, and the festering truth beneath what is presumed to be dead; a painful memory more in heart than head; but all is well, theres no pungent smell of a sleeping end that will soon justify the means. An awarded fate thats never late, where sleeping, not dead dogs lie." Quote Right
Quote Left Lies fester in shallow water. Quote Right

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