"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
— E. E. Cummings

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
— Socrates