Even When I'm Railed At, I Get

Nature Without Exercise Is A Seed Shut Up In A Pod, And Art Without Practice Is Nothing.

Learning Is The Property Of Those Who Fear To Do Disagreeable Things.

Perugia Is My True Fatherland Because There I Grew To Manhood.

Poetry Is A Whim Of Nature In Her Lighter Moods; It Requires Nothing But Its Own Madness And, Lacking That, It Becomes A Soundless Cymbal, A Belfry Without A Bell.

I Am A Free Man. I Do Not Need To Copy Petrarca Or Boccaccio. My Own Genius Is Enough. Let Others Worry Themselves About Style, And So Cease To Be Themselves. Without A Master, Without A Model, Without A Guide, I Go To Work And Earn My Living, My Well-being And My Fame.