More From Voltaire
- "If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
- "What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature."
- "Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."
More In Poetry
- "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."― Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."― Helen Dunmore
- "The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."― Lawrence Lessig