The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

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.

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.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.