Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.