Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.