North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.