If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.