Maybe hubris, maybe poetic truth:
"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
(see also BuildingBookWeb (2 Feb 2001), ...)
TopicLiterature - TopicWriting - Datetag20030102
(correlates: GoodBeyondHope, SingleDigitRun, ProjectileHubris, ...)