Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.