I Will Not Serve!

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do.

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe,

whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church:

and I will try to express myself in some mode of life

or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can,

using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use,

silence, exile and cunning.